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As a former High School English teacher, I have experienced the overwhelming tsunami of having to provide feedback on a weekly basis to ~150 students. Between that experience and my more recent experiences teaching online students, I’ve thought a lot about providing feedback on student writing and student products.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of The Gradhacker Podcast! Alex Galarza and Andrea Zellner co-host Episode 1: Flipping the Classroom, in which they interview Dr. Ken Frank, a professor at Michigan State who has employed the technique of ‘Flipping the Classroom’ in his courses. They also discuss a number of blog [...]
A new year brings a renewed resolve to really get things done. As graduate students, finding strategies to improve productivity are worth their weight in gold. While there are countless mobile and web applications that can improve one’s workflow, I thought I would highlight a few here that have helped my workflow in my [...]
In the world of graduate school, awed whispers (sometimes with a twinge of jealousy) can strike up when the topic of publication arises. With academic publishing playing such an important role for any graduate student, it is no wonder that there is often a lot of stress when it comes to the whole ordeal.
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This is a guest post by Taylor Jardno, a second-year doctoral student in Yale University’s Department of History. Her current work focuses on youth militancy and comic book culture in Argentina. She can be contacted at taylor [dot] jardno [at] yale [dot] edu.
After the first research recon trip of my graduate school [...]
In my previous post on productivity systems I discussed the importance of breaking tasks down into their component parts. When assigned a large paper, you can look it as a series of smaller tasks like reading, annotating, and writing a paragraph or two every day. Paul N Edwards has provided an excellent [...]
When other educators ask me about my journey to becoming an educator who readily uses digital tools in my classroom, I always point to the work of the National Writing Project (NWP). The NWP is a national network of over 200 writing project sites. Each site is affiliated with an institution [...]
One of the most important skills to develop in graduate school is the ability to write clear prose. As teachers and scholars, we are expected to communicate complex ideas in simpler terms. This can be especially difficult when you still are struggling to develop clear thoughts on a topic, let alone cogent writing. I [...]
Google+, Google’s newest stab at the social networking world, launched a few weeks ago as an invite-only beta on June 28, 2011. I was invited in on June 29th, which marks a milestone for me in that I don’t think I’ve been in a network so early in its infancy. With [...]
In my first year of graduate school, I remember having to overcome a feeling of disorientation. I was perfectly oriented with my institution (a lifelong MSU fan) and quickly developed a circle of friends in my cohort. However, I felt a profound sense of uncertainty with the how and why of graduate study. I [...]
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