Selected ProfHacker Posts (from the archives)

From August 2009 to October 2010, I wrote almost 100 blog posts for (and was the managing editor of) ProfHacker, a blog hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education and providing tips about teaching, technology, and productivity.

Here are links to some of my favorite posts from those times…including their dates of publication so you can take some of the content (and the links found within) with a grain of salt—internet time races on, and all that.

• “Location-Based Gaming for Education: Try Gowalla” (October 13, 2010)
• “Using Picnik for Some Image-Editing Fun” (September 24, 2010)
• “Using Gmail Priority Inbox to Help Filter Your Incoming Mail” (September 2, 2010)
• “A Brief Introduction to Omeka” (August 9, 2010)
• “One Week, One Tool: Anthologize” (August 5, 2010)
• “Consider Revision Control Methods for Documents” (July 21, 2010)
• “Using Portable Applications for Productivity” (July 12, 2010)
• “Using Interfolio to Manage Your Professional Documents” (May 18, 2010)
• “Revisiting Google Docs for Classroom Use” (May 4, 2010)
• “Engaging with the ‘Screwmeneutical Imperative,’ or why I teach humanities students how to code” (April 21, 2010)
• “Asking for Help is a Productivity Tool” (April 5, 2010)
• “A Gentle Introduction to Version Control” (March 25, 2010)
• “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website” (March 1, 2010)
• “How 15 Minutes Can Save 24 Hours of Stress” (January 29, 2010)
• “Tools for Synchronous and Asynchronous Classroom Discussion” (January 11, 2010)
• “On Writing for the Web” (January 4, 2010)
• “Managing Facebook Privacy Settings” (round 1, round 2; October – December 2009)
• “A Pleasant Little Chat About XML” (October 6, 2009)
• “Choosing a Web Browser that’s Right for You” (September 15, 2009)
• “Working with APIs” (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4; August – October 2009)
• “Website Hosting 101” (August 25, 2009)
• “Using Twitter Clients to Manage Your Information Stream” (August 21, 2009)
• “Getting Started with Google Docs in the Classroom” (August 19, 2009)
• “Integrating, Evaluating, and Managing Blogging in the Classroom” (August 13, 2009)
• “Teacherly Roles and Technology Integration” (August 10, 2009)