I am a Core Contributor to the ProfHacker blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s website: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/rcordell. Here’s a regularly-updated list of my posts:
- “It’s That Time of Year: Hold On!,” April 23, 2012
- “Teach That Class (Again) Using Blog Copier,” April 9, 2012
- “Create an Easy, Online Gradebook with Learnboost,” April 3, 2012
- “Using a WordPress Multisite Network for Class Webpages,” February 27, 2012
- “Backup Google Documents with Insync,” February 22, 2012
- “Manage Classes in WordPress with Scholarpress Courseware,” February 13, 2012
- “a-JAYS One+ Earphones Won’t Tangle When Traveling,” January 30, 2012
- “DHCommons Launches for All Users,” January 24, 2012
- “Avoiding Tool Takeover,” January 16, 2012
- “Collaborate with Colleagues Using Google+ with Extras,” December 15, 2011
- “Share Your Digital Project at DHCommons’ Open MLA 2012 Project Mixer,” December 8, 2011
- “Google Scholar Citations Now Open to All,” November 22, 2011
- “Digital Humanities at AAR-SBL,” November 8, 2011
- “‘Speed Dating’ Peer Review Writing Workshops,” November 3, 2011
- “Profs are People, Too: Hacking the Classroom by Bringing in the Personal,” October 17, 2011
- “Use Your Operating System’s Accessibility Features to Proofread Documents,” October 11, 2011
- “Digital Humanities (Triumphant?) at AHA and MLA 2012,” October 7, 2011
- “Writing in Public (in the Classroom),” September 26, 2011
- “Stand Up! (in Your Office),” September 19, 2011
- “Hacking a Dead Cell Zone with Google Voice,” September 13, 2011
- “Developing a Digital Etiquette Policy,” August 22, 2011
- “Get Started in Digital Humanities at MLA 2012,” August 9, 2011
- “Technology and Your Institution’s Mission,” August 1, 2011
- “Stay Connected with Family Through Video Chats,” June 28, 2011
- “Stay Connected While Abroad with Google Voice and Facetime,” June 21, 2011
- “Organizing a THATCamp for Liberal Arts Colleges,” June 16, 2011
- “Manage Travel Plans on the Go with TripDeck for iOS,” May 23, 2011
- “Unfriending for Sanity,” May 16, 2011
- “Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop,” May 4, 2011
- “Backup 5 GB with Amazon Cloud Drive,” April 26, 2011
- “HelloFax Makes Faxing Painless (Even for Profs. Hacker),” April 13, 2011
- “Name Mangler Does Just the Opposite,” April 7, 2011
- “Create Forms with File Uploads Using Dropbox Forms,” March 21, 2011
- “Feeling Lonely? Go to (THAT)Camp!” March 14, 2011
- “Two More Uses for the Attendance iOS App,” March 7, 2011
- “Avoid ‘Grading Jail’ through Course Writing Contracts,” February 21, 2011
- “Telling Social Stories with Storify,” February 17, 2011
- “More Hackety Hack, Less Yackety Yack: Ruby for Humanists,” February 1, 2011
- “Backup with D-R-O-B-O,” January 26, 2011
- “When Perceptions Don’t Match Reality in the Classroom,” January 19, 2011
- “Dropbox 1.0 Released (with Selective Sync),” January 10, 2011
- “The WordPress Users Association: Worth Joining?” December 15, 2010
- “Mashups in the Literature Classroom,” December 9, 2010
- “Syncing Your Files and To-dos with Things Folders,” November 30, 2010
- “Dropbox on University Hardware: A Reader Question,” November 8, 2010
- “Scrivener 2.0 Released for Mac and (gasp) Windows,” October 27, 2010 (this article also appeared in the print edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 November, 2010)
- “A Culture of Sharing: Susan Blum’s My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture,” October 21, 2010
- “When Technology (Publicly) Fails,” October 12, 2010
- “Grading Classroom Participation Rhetorically,” October 6, 2010
- “Kids, Solid Foods, and Allergies: An Analogy for New Tech in the Classroom?” August 18 2010
- “How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To),” August 11, 2010
- “Managing Your Passwords (and Making Them More Secure) with Lastpass,” August 3, 2010
- “Concentrate on Tasks with Concentrate (the Application),” July 14, 2010
- “Responding to Your Institution’s Technological Choices (an Open Forum),” July 6, 2010
- “Automating Research with Google Scholar Alerts,” July 1, 2010
- “Thinking Outside of Your Academic Ghetto with Audiobooks and Podcasts,” June 21, 2010
- “Back Up Your Essential Files Using Dropbox,” June 15, 2010 (this article also appeared in the print edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 July 2010)
- “An Introduction to Google Voice,” June 8, 2010
- “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs? (Reader Response Roundup),” May 25, 2010
- “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs?” May 11, 2010
- “Smarter Typing Through Text Expansion,” May 6, 2010
- “Scrivener, Scrivening, Scriverastic,” March 8, 2010
- “Putting the THINGS in GTD: Managing an Academic Life with Cultured Code’s Things,” January 14, 2010