Someone who is respected within the field and has contacts who can help you with publications and jobs.
Someone who is knowledgeable about the university and its politics and policies.
Someone who takes the time to help with your studies and your career.
Someone who does not exploit you.
Someone who is not a disinterested observer of your career but cares about you as a person and is supportive -- like a coach cheering you on.
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Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | E... - 1 views
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A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries between the classroom and life experience, along with the power of social learning, authentic audiences, and integrative contexts, has created not only promising changes in learning but also disruptive moments in teaching.
How Professors Really Feel About Digital Technology [#Study] | EdTech Magazine - 1 views
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As a follow-up to their study on how professors view online learning, Inside Higher Ed partnered with Babson Survey Research Group to explore how college professors and administrators interact with technology. The survey, summarized in Digital Faculty: Professors, Teaching and Technology, posed questions about digital learning content, e-books, social media, communication, learning management software and a variety of other technology-related issues. Here are a few key points from this excellent report.
Cultivated Play: Farmville | MediaCommons - 0 views
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on farmville as game/ social capital etc.
AskAround.Me - 0 views
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gps-enabled app for when we go to conferences and need to eat?
Students are using Facebook as an educational tool - 0 views
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "College students are taking social media to a new level, using Web sites like Facebook to communicate with other students about their coursework, according to results of a new survey on student technology use."...more
Quora - 0 views
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Quora easily allows you or your students to find questions that have already been posed (that is, by individuals who might or might not have any connection to your course). More than likely, responses to those questions will have already been contributed.
Computing In The Cloud: Who Owns Your Files? : NPR - 0 views
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Why universities shouldn't be using commercial sites, imho. Mark. :)
Introduction | Community of Inquiry - 0 views
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks - 2 views
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from the site: "VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field."
Twitter Alternatives - 0 views
Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags - 0 views
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mark this is probably old news to you but if I do this I'll be using hashtags for my course
Are You a Good Protégé? - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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the profile is similar to how junior faculty members would describe their ideal career mentor, too.
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The mentor relationship is alive and well in the sciences, where there is a strong tradition of senior researchers bringing postdocs and new assistant professors into their laboratories and grant projects. But in the social sciences and humanities, probably because of the difficult job market, relations between established scholars and newcomers to the profession seem strained.
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