Social media is crucial not only because it provides a fast way to share information, but also because it makes faculty workloads more transparent.
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One-Page Scrolling Web Sites: a Great New Way to Tell a Story - Redesigning Good - The ... - 0 views
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Example of one page scrolling web site to tell a story--research plans, research results--populated with a little text and big graphics that move, make it very interesting. They suggest this is a better way to go than a PDF for sharing your story.
Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops? - Wired Campus... - 0 views
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Article by Jeffrey R. Young, June 9, 2015 in the Chronicle of HE on incentive value of badges for professors to take teaching workshops. Should we offer a badge for ECO completers? "Still, badges are probably more valuable to professors than are the paper certificates that Kent State traditionally gave to those who completed training workshops in the past. "It's an easy way for a professor to show that I'm that type of faculty member that goes and does faculty development," said Ms. Kelly."
Serendipitous Learning on Twitter - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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great examples by Prof. Hacker on Chronicle of HE on how to learn with Twitter
Love, Blog Me Do. (You Know I Blog You.) - Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Hig... - 0 views
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one of the funniest posts I have ever read by Lucy Ferriss, Lingua Franca, July 8, 2015.
Why Your Department Needs Social Media - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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What’s also crucial about Facebook and Twitter is that they make clear the fact that faculty workloads stretch beyond teaching. Announcements of the talks we give, the articles we write, the exhibits we organize, the fellowships we win, and our media appearances emphasize that some of us work on contracts in which about half of our time is supposed to be devoted to research.
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Very nice justification of why academic depts should and can use Twitter and Facebook, Rachel Hermann
Team Productivity Through Slack - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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It is, essentially a closed messaging service. Messages can be organized according to channels using hashtags, and team members can also direct message each other, or create closed categories for only certain members working on a particular problem. The app is cloud-based, so it can live simultaneously on your smart phone and desktop as well as the web.
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great article on Slack and maybe some barriers to using it
Slack: When It Makes Sense to Use It - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views
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Good blog post on Slack ins and outs and uses
Rethinking Twitter in the Classroom | Vitae - 0 views
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nice blog post on how Twitter does encourage learning and how it should be introduced into class along with other requirements students should consider before enrolling in the class, Kelli Marshall, lecturer at DePaul University, June 2015, Chronicle HE
Open Access & Copyright: A View from the South - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of ... - 0 views
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great article on open access to educational and research resources
How Tech Tools Can Help Professors Prepare Their Tenure Portfolios - Wired Campus - Blo... - 0 views
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nice explanation of how professor uses email, scanner, Evernote, and Dropbox to build a fully searchable portfolio to organize and store bits of information that need to be compiled when being considered for tenure.
'The Great Shame of Our Profession' - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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great article by Kevin Birmingham, a literary criticism award winner, the first ever non-tenured faculty member to win it, on how adjunct crisis is furthered by status quo university systems that value everything but classroom teaching.
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