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Notes toward an iPhone app: Reading Texts with Enkidu
image by flickr user oskay / cc licensed This past summer, I TA’d a pilot program in Jason Jones’ class where every student was loaned an iPod touch for the duration of the session. It was an...
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Modeling Technology in the Classroom: A Student’s Guide
Whether or not we are approaching any grand Singularity, technology continues to change in new and interesting ways. Users continue to stress the limits of any given system, and creators expand the...
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An Introduction to All Things Google
Here at ProfHacker, one of the things we like to do is share ideas about what’s working for us. A good number of us on the team find that we regularly use all things Google. This post, the first in a...
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Defending RateMyProfessors.com
RateMyProfessors.com is a website – now owned by MTV – that fills a strange space in the mindset of the academic community. At its best, it is a forum for students to honestly and anonymously evaluate...
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All Things Google: The ‘Droid you’re looking for
I’ll admit that I bought into the Android idea early: I was an avid user of Google, liked the idea of an open-source handset, and really wanted something powerful other then the iPhone (mostly just to...
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Creating Workshops for Students and Faculty
In January, I accepted a co-op position at Central Connecticut State University in our campus’ Instructional Technology Design and Resource Center. The plan was simple; figure out a way to inject new...
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I, Hamster: On Living Near Campus
Most students think of my campus as a commuter school. And while most students live off-campus, that hides the fact that lots of us live in apartments or shared houses in the immediate vicinity of...
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Pursuing Techno-Bliss
Some of us dream of the day that our synthetic eyes capture all that our minds deem appropriate, where DragonThink turns our thoughts directly into papers and quantum fluctuation allows us to be both...
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(Prof)Hacking the ultimate word processor
A while back, I wrote about pursuing something called Techno-bliss. I had described it as a system where you imagined a perfect technological system built around a primary goal My own version of...
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Scanner for Zotero Gets Metadata on Your Droid
I tend to think about things in a very mechanical sense. I like making Linux scripts for repeated tasks, my routines are strict and emotionless, and when I usually spend time trying to figure out the...
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