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Updates to ScheduleOnce for Google Calendar Appointments
After everyone finished gasping at the news that Google was canceling Calendar Appointments, which we reported about last winter here at ProfHacker, many faculty pursued other online solutions for...
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Outside-of-the-box Office Hours
Thanks to technology, office hours are no longer limited to drop-in or door sign-up options. As we’ve written about before, digital office hours are now an option, as is by-appointment-only. (You can...
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Schedule E-mail on the Go with Boomerang
Back in 2010, Amy reported on using Boomerang to schedule email within Gmail or Outlook for a later send date. I personally use this email add-on daily, finding it useful to queue up emails to arrive...
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Digital lab notebooks: what works and what doesn’t?
This year in the advanced physics course I teach, I wanted to broaden student exposure to lab notebook keeping methods. Students could keep lab notebooks on traditional carbon copy paper, or they...
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Labguru for Life Science Lab Management (and more)
French scientist Louis Pasteur said “chance favors the prepared mind.” In the game of scientific research, organization can be key to creating favorable conditions for the great moments every...
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Stocking Up for Lunch in Your Office
As unideal as eating lunch at your keyboard is, it happens. Course and meeting schedules can be unforgiving. Before the semester starts, it can be a good idea to stock your office with food that makes...
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WordPress Plugin Now Available for JotForm
Looking for a plugin to add form features to your WordPress installation? We’ve written previously about JotForm (here and here), a service which allows you to create forms and link to some collection...
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Wearable Wellness Tech (With Features That Help in Academia, Too)
The arrival of a new calendar year can bring many to consider purchasing items to aid in wellness. If you are doing so, I’d like to recommend the FitBit Alta HR, particularly for its usefulness in...
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Overcast.fm for listening to podcasts
The internet has exploded with podcasts, with so many great options out there. (ProfHacker even got in on the trend for awhile!) Here at ProfHacker, we have had several open thread posts about podcasts...
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How to Get a List/Agenda View in the Mac Calendar App
Are you like me, shaking your fist in angst at the lack of obvious way to get a list agenda view in your Mac OS X Calendar app? True to professor hack blogging form, here is a simple solution: Put a...
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