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    Welcome!

    by  • March 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

    On March 28, 2012, this blog crashed and burned—as did all the other sites hosted on this domain. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but I couldn’t fix it. Since I was nearly at the end of my contract with my current hosting provider and had been planning to change providers at the...

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    My latest at ProfHacker: Standardization or Variety? Where’s the Balance?

    by  • April 30, 2012 • 0 Comments

     A student’s lament: “One professor refuses to accept assignments electronically. Another only accepts assignments electronically. One professor wants me to use Microsoft Word for all my writing assignments. One doesn’t want to see anything with a .doc or .docx extension. One professor thinks that ‘electronic submission’ should translate to ‘send as an email attachment.’ One...

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    My latest at ProfHacker: Great Lakes THATCamp 2012

    by  • April 26, 2012 • 0 Comments

    It’s no great secret that many of us here at ProfHacker are huge fans of the THATCamp series of unconferences; we’ve written quite a lot about these gatherings—and there’s really no reason to change that pattern, is there? This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Great Lakes THATCamp, which was held...

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    My latest at ProfHacker: Scheduling Email Revisited

    by  • March 30, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Email. It often seems we’re inundated with it, like it or not. We’ve written a lot here at ProfHacker about managing it, including scheduling it with Boomerang, which works with both Outlook (free for the first 30 days, $29.95 to keep) and GMail (available in free, $4.99/month, and $14.99/month plans). For me, the ability...

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    Fidelity

    by  • March 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Last weekend I finally had the chance to see the much-acclaimed film, Of Gods and Men. The film tells the story of the Trappist monks from the monastery at Tibhirine, Algeria (they were kidnapped and murdered in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War). Oddly enough, there’s only a bare minimum of graphic violence in...

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