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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Kathryn Plank

Kathryn Plank

Lecturing without Tiring or Losing Your Voice - 0 views

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    Watch the following five-part video to learn basic vocal health techniques of support, projection, tension release, and proper placement of resonance in order to keep your lecturing voice strong throughout your class session, day, term, and career.
Kathryn Plank

Students - Almanac of Higher Education 2012 - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Learn more about who your students are, where they come from, and how they're doing, with more than 15 tables and tools on enrollment and demographics.
Kathryn Plank

Embrace Your Inner Insecurity - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Do you feel inadequate even though you have done well professionally? Do you worry that you could be fired tomorrow, even if you constantly receive positive feedback? Do you work harder than most people in order to prove that you are not an impostor?
Kathryn Plank

Campus Pride Ranks The Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Colleges And Universities In The Country - 1 views

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    Ohio State is in the top of the rankings.
Kathryn Plank

What a Tech Start-Up's Data Say About What Works in Classroom Forums - Wired Campus - T... - 1 views

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    There's big talk these days about "big data" in education-looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.
Kathryn Plank

Don't Blow Your Cover Letter - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Search committees often place a great deal of importance on cover letters when they're reviewing candidates, but I've yet to meet a job seeker who has received much training or mentoring on how to write one. So what differentiates good cover letters from weak ones?
Kathryn Plank

Developing an Effective Teaching Portfolio - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    No one mentioned teaching portfolios in the professional-development seminars I attended as a doctoral student, so when I encountered requests for that item (or the vaguer "evidence of teaching effectiveness") in a handful of job calls last year, I balked.
Kathryn Plank

"Slow Tech" - 2 views

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    Interesting presentation with implications for our classrooms.
Kathryn Plank

The Benefits of Making It Harder to Learn - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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    In January 2011, a trio of researchers published the results of an experiment in which they demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than students who read the same material in conventional, familiar fonts.
Kathryn Plank

Midcareer Mentoring, Part 3 - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Much has been written about how much time an assistant professor should spend on "service" work and what types of service might be important for career advancement, as opposed to a poor use of time, not to mention soul-destroying. The typical advice is: "do some but not a lot."
Kathryn Plank

Five Ways to Recharge During the Summer | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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    Some good ideas for making the most of a short summer.
Kathryn Plank

Online Courses Can Offer Easy A's via High-Tech Cheating - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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    Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses. Tech-savvy students are finding ways to cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways that are difficult to detect.
Kathryn Plank

Why Are Associate Professors Some of the Unhappiest People in Academe? - Faculty - The ... - 1 views

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    This is one of the reasons that UCAT sponsors the Mid-Career & Senior Faculty Learning Community.
Kathryn Plank

Create visually appealing Carmen content - 0 views

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    Would you like to improve the visual appeal of your content in Carmen? Join the OCIO's Digital Union and Ken Petri from the Web Accessibility Center at 1 p.m. on Friday (3/30) in 060 SEL for a hands-on workshop on using HTML templates in Carmen. Petri will show you how to use the templates to organize your content pages so that they are attractive and easy for everyone to read.
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