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3 avril 2016

Syntax Highlighting for (English) Prose

By Jason B. Jones. Programmers have long been used to text editors that offer syntax highlighting, a feature that does exactly what it says on the tin: it renders specific aspects of code in different colors, so that you’re better able to find relevant sections–or even just fix mistakes. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Experimenting with Specifications Grading

By Jason B. Jones. Noted media scholar and friend-of-ProfHacker Jason Mittell has been experimenting with a new way of grading, called “specifications grading,” on the grounds that “figuring out a way to rethink the culture of grades would be the most effective and impactful reform” available at a school such as Middlebury. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Framing Annotation

By Jason B. Jones. I don’t think this is a controversial view or anything, but I’m fond of annotation. I’v written before that I think it’s a fundamental activity in both networked culture and higher education, and we’ve certainly written about annotation quite a bit here at ProfHacker. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Attending to Smartphone Apps

By Jason B. Jones. The app economy, we’re told, is “bigger than Hollywood.” Apple likes to boast of how many jobs its app store has created, and even the president exhorts the young folks to program their phones, not just play with them. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Go to Bed: Sleep Debt and Self-Deceit

By Jason B. Jones. This weekend, at least in the US, Daylight Saving Time resumes, which means that next week everyone’s likely to be groggy and a little confused.
It turns out that this is only a slight exaggeration of our normal state. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Turning Off the New, Worse Twitter

By Jason B. Jones. As part of its own ongoing confusion about what it is (which is both a cause and consequence of this problem, Twitter has been on a campaign recently to worsen its service. The current version of this is to make Twitter more Facebook-ish by giving control of your timeline to its algorithms. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Managing Slack

By Jason B. Jones. Over the past couple of years, the on-trend communication tool among technology types has, no doubt, been Slack. Lee wrote an introductory post about it in August, and Maha followed up a couple of weeks later with some thoughts about when to use it. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Keeping Track of Bills with FileThis

By Amy Cavender. There’s no getting around it: finances are one of the many things we have to keep track of. Fortunately, there are tools that help keep us organized and on top of things. Heather’s covered personal finance software, Erin’s suggested ways to check in on your insurance, and Adeline’s looked at a helpful tool for reorganizing your finances. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Using Google Forms for In-class Polling

By Amy Cavender. Recently, I found myself involved in a conversation about clickers. The topic under discussion wasn’t their usefulness in the classroom, but the fact that there are a number of different types available, and as the manufacturers update their products, equipment that’s already in use may end up obsolete. Read more...

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3 avril 2016

Data Visualization With Knoema

By Amy Cavender. Anyone who’s had to deal with large amounts of data will be well aware that sometimes a visual can be extremely helpful in understanding that data. Read more...

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