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65 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog. Transparency in Commenting: An Unintended Experiment with Google Docs. I've been requiring students to turn projects in via Google Docs for a couple of years now, for at least three reasons:It's online, so students don't have to worry about forgetting their homework at home and I don't have to worry about carrying around a stack of papers when I grade.Docs are private by default, but easy to share with specific collaborators. So students can post online without having to worry that their papers will be seen by unintended readers.It has a lot of collaborative functions, so students can easily collaborate and peer-review.

GDocs isn't the only tool that will do these things - I could have students use a closed wiki, Zoho Write, or various other tools. But GDocs is easy to use, imports MS Word fairly well, and looks enough like Word that I don't have to provide much of a tutorial. And now that UT has gone with Google Apps for students, the barrier for entry has been lowered. Here was my reasoning for not embedding comments in the document: Students loved it. The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students. 'Speed Dating' Peer-Review Writing Workshops.

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25 Things Students Forget About the Internet, or Why Explicit Instruction of Internet Literacy is Vital (Plus a Special Bonus Thing!!) | Blogging Pedagogy. A Non-Designer's Guide to Making Attractive Presentation Slides. The key there is to make data meaningful and simplified. Presentations are just that, presentations. If they want a report, hand out print-outs and in the presentation make notes on where to find elaborations in the print out. Furthermore, provide a link to a PDF of the report on the company network so that anyone who lost the paper handout can get back to it without bothering you. Seriously, you have to assert that Reports and Presentations serve two different functions and if they don't like it, they can do the "presentation" themselves next time.

Be nice about it :-) but also be assertive >:D You're gonna be best served making a PPT template in your free time and just making reports when you are assigned them. But, if your report is just 2-5 pages, go ahead and put the data on the slides. The key is to use visual cues instead of writing things out. Also, don't forget Title Slides, They make is very easy to see what follows and convey very clearly that the last section has ended. No, really, this may be the worst cover letter ever. A couple years ago at Ragan.com, I deconstructed what I speculated was the worst cover letter ever. The overeager undergrad misspelled the company's name, mischaracterized its industry and uttered successive groaners like this one, about her internship: When I am given a task, I get it done better than expected.

The men at the radio station referred to me as 'Chicago' and 'sassy'—and never failed to give me stories that required contacting the hard-to-get sources. I always got them to talk, and I always got them to 'spill it.' Sassy, they said, is for the ability that I have when it comes to asking the 'tough questions.' I know: "pretty horrible," right?

But even though I concealed the young fool's name, I was vilified by many kind-hearted Ragan readers for attempting to teach a letter-writing lesson, as one reader put it, "at the expense of someone's hope. " Well I've learned my lesson. I'll just run the damn thing: Good morning, Jessica! Okay, I can't help myself.

In this cover letter, Ms. 11_225700_A_Zombie_Final. Integrating Online Identity Analysis and Web Presence Creation into Business and Professional Writing Pedagogy - Presentation for the 2011 International Convention of the Association for Business Communication; October 18-22, 2011; Montreal, Quebec. Clearinghouse Books. Improving PowerPoint-style Presentations. Google's Cloud Connect Links Microsoft Office and GoogleDocs Together. Many of us at ProfHacker use GoogleDocs to collaborate with others on shared documents in our web browsers or to create and edit documents from our mobile devices. After using GoogleDocs, however, working in Microsoft Office feels awkward and not very social, especially when you need to collaborate with others in real time.

That’s where a new piece of software from Google comes into play. Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office allows you to get all of the benefits of Google Docs from within Microsoft Office. It appears to be quite similar to the OffiSync plugin that Mark wrote about back in December, but it’s completely free. This plugin (currently Windows-only) allows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 users to edit GoogleDocs documents in the cloud from within Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. The plugin allows you to share, backup, and edit simultaneously with others who are also using the plugin with Office or who are using GoogleDocs in the cloud.

How about you? Return to Top. Mapping Controversies in Rhetoric Using Dipity | Blogging Pedagogy. Take a Few Presentation Tips from The King's Speech. Write or Die by Dr Wicked. 750 Words. Take a Few Presentation Tips from The King's Speech.