Integrating Wikipedia in Your Courses: Tips and Tricks
Wikipedia is the seventh most-popular website on the Internet and is the web’s most popular and largest reference resource. Many instructors decry student reliance on this online encyclopedia open to...
View ArticleGet Involved In Classroom Design: A Grant to Upgrade Your Classroom
Have you ever been frustrated by the largely immobile set-up of a typical classroom? Have you ever wished for the opportunity to redesign the space in which you teach? Here’s an opportunity: if you...
View ArticleTeaching with Wikipedia? The Wiki Education Foundation Wants to Help!
I’ve written a number of ProfHacker articles on integrating Wikipedia into your classroom, such as this post on tips and tricks for teaching with Wikipedia and how to organize your own Wikipedia...
View Article“Know Thy Selfie”: A Selfie Group Discussion Assignment
“Selfies,” or self-taken photographs, have become as ubiquitous as the smartphone. Their popularity has even spurred the formation of an academic group, The Selfies Research Network. Your students...
View ArticleEmail Overload? A Review of Sanebox, an Email Management Tool
I often refer to my inbox as the abyss from which few return, given how overwhelmed I generally am. Faced with a constant email deluge, I’m always worried that I will forget to answer important emails...
View ArticleIntroducing the Digital Pedagogy Lab
If you’re itching to brush up your digital teaching chops over the summer, the journal Hybrid Pedagogy is offering a Digital Pedagogy Lab this summer. Slated to take place at the University of...
View ArticleTeaching with Wikipedia: Free Webinar by WVU, April 30, 10.30am-12pm EST
If you’ve been meaning to start exploring what it would take to integrate Wikipedia in your courses, the West Virginia University library is hosting a free webinar on teaching with Wikipedia on April...
View ArticleWhen Do You Start Deleting Older Items From Your Academic CV?
How long do you keep the items on your academic CV? If it’s been a while since graduate school, do you take off your accomplishments from that time? How long ago would items have to have taken place...
View ArticleNew Online Courses in Digital Pedagogy
There is a ton of free material on learning how to teach with new digital tools online. That’s one of the best things that ProfHacker writers have been dispensing since its inception. We’ve written...
View ArticleStarting Your Own Website: Reclaim Your Hosting
If you’re a regular ProfHacker reader, you probably understand the importance of building and having control over your web presence. We’ve posted a “Website Hosting 101 guide back in 2009, a primer...
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