academhack

So I try to keep this blog about technology and academics, keep it focused to provide the maximum amount of usefulness to others. I try to save my random thoughts and rants for elsewhere. But I have been following Dean Karnazes for the past 28 days, and he is worthy of a post. [...]

Jenn’s classroom, the one where she has students blogging as part of the composition class, is approaching half-way through the semester. While she has met with success as far as getting students involved, she would really like to get outside comments on the students posts. That is, she wants to get the students [...]

File this one under stupid but simple, wish I would of thought of this . . .except I’m not finished with the dissertation yet so . . .
hint to recent PhDs wishing to publish their dissertation as a book: “
At the very least, do a search and replace of your document so it says ‘book’ [...]

So for those who are interested in my more “academic” pursuits, the Grand Theft Auto book, for which I wrote a chapter is now available. The book is a collection of essays from a range of academic perspectives. You can see the chapters at the McFarland website, although the names are not listed, [...]

Ran across this today via the Chronicle for Higher Ed. Textbook Revolution is a collection of online (read free) textbooks for students. Apparently started by a student who was frustrated at paying so much for his class textbooks (what a corporate racket the market is) he decided to take matters into his own [...]

Yet another online resource for educators, Academic Blogs is a web portal that keeps track of blogs in the academic blogosphere. The principle advantage of this site, over say Crooked Timber, is that this one is a wiki, so it remains rather dynamic and with the potential to be more thorough. The blogs [...]

I should begin by saying this post is not for everyone, what I am about to write about is merely a matter of preference, but I will say when I started using a computer like this, it made my daily experience so much better.

Zotero is now available to the public. For those who haven’t been following the release, Zotero is free software designed that allows you to collect, manage, and site your references. A couple of things to note before you rush over and download this program. First it is still in Beta which means [...]

MSU has launched a site aimed at being the comprehensive on-line resource for those blogging in higher-ed. While I know of several resources for blogging in education most of these focus on k-12, Blogs for Learning fills a gap in higher-ed. In addition to tutorials on how to set up blogs (on several [...]

Here are some links to resources I found, or people sent me. I haven’t tried them all out thoroughly, but depending on your needs they might interest you.

Gradefix is a website that promises to help you with organizing your homework. It has two account types (free and $5 a month). I like the interface [...]