Tech
Several months ago, I purchased a Raspberry Pi. I had three principal uses for it. I wanted to use it as a Plex server. I was also interested in a Homebridge server, to enable some of my smart devices to work together more effectively. Finally, I wanted to see if
Teaching
A course planning template I’ve been experimenting with Notion on and off for quite a while, and during the Fall 2020 semester I began exploring how I might use it for course planning. Could I use it to see how the various parts of a course fit together as
Teaching
What a difference a year makes. In mid-February last year, I expressed some doubt to a colleague about my campus’s decision to recall our students from Italy. Don’t misunderstand — I knew that there was a Level 3 travel advisory for Italy at that point, and I would certainly
Tech
This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on January 10, 2017. A good number of us here at ProfHacker prefer to avoid paper whenever possible. When I teach my writing course each fall, I have my students use Google Documents so that
Teaching
This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on October 4, 2012. This semester, I’m in an enviable position. I get to take courses I’m really enjoying, simply because I want to learn what’s being taught in them. There’s
Tech
This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on November 17, 2016. Sometimes it happens: someone sends us a document in Word format, and we’d really rather it was a PDF. The reasons can vary. Maybe we need to post it on
Teaching
This is a script I wrote to accompany a short video I created for my colleagues a couple of years ago. The video is available on YouTube: I’d like to demonstrate a way of providing handwritten feedback to students in a paperless environment. To provide such feedback, you’ll