ClassHacker

A collection of things and thoughts about higher education, technology, community colleges, teaching, and entertainment.

[deanblumberg]

ENG 102 students: we will begin blogging about Dave Eggers’ The Circle over the last month of class. Be sure to tag all your posts with the hashtag included on the assignment so I can easily follow your blog.

[wordisvirus]

There’s a hashtag on my dunkies, as I write up my research project on social media in higher education.

[wswctuie-blog]

Another article from ProfHacker, this time written by Ryan Cordell. He includes an excellent example of an assignment he uses with his students. He includes this clause:

…I strongly encourage you to create a disposable account if for any reason you prefer not to share your personal account for classroom activities…

This goes back to the “creepy treehouse” post from earlier. The way that Cordell has outlined the assignment has provided students with an out (and possibly encouragement) to keep their personal and academic lives separate. While this is all fine and dandy, one thing he doesn’t mention is teaching students about being careful with personal information on Twitter. As a future teacher, I’m constantly cautioned to be careful about how I approach social media. Twitter assignments seem like the perfect opportunity to approach that same topic with students of any age. 

[unwrapping]

"I’ve started using Tumblr to keep track of some of the images and notes for the project and to get ideas from other fans and scholars examining the many versions of Alice in Wonderland. This can be particularly cool when there are researchers with overlapping interests to follow….” — Anastasia Salter on research blogging and curating with Tumblr.

[georgetownuniversitypress]

Using Facebook and Tumblr to Engage Students

Great article from ProfHacker

[deanblumberg]

How HGTC Students Use Social Media

693 students responded to a survey about social media habits and the integration of social apps with their classroom experience.

Playing around with a neat little web app, infogram. It allows you the ability to upload .csv files and visually display the data in unique ways. I still have more data and results to process and make sense of, but all this research is being compiled for a project about social media as a classroom tool in a 2-year college environment. I think social media has the potential to create a more cohesive community at community colleges, especially considering our unique demographic.

[daphnelena]

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? you want to screw up the works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe? there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody’s asleep. I say, I know that you’re there, so don’t be sad. then I put him back, but he’s singing a little in there, I haven’t quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

Charles Bukowski

Bluebird

(via daphnelena)

[deanblumberg]

[mackenziemorganking102-blog]

In Ann Patchet’s Bel Canto, the hostage characters endure several different psychological effects. The hostages are taken entirely out of their comfort zone and life they have grown into. The psychological effects that the hostages endure include fear, anxiety, stress, trauma, changes of heart,...

[deanblumberg]

Nice post, mackenziemorganking102!

[theparisreview]

And in every hand, smartphones made footage of their bodies,                     the heaps and twists of metal.

The smoke uploaded the wreckage                                              to the screenlike sky where it goes on burning forever—

you will never know if dying is like that, the same scenes repeated across a larger mind                                                              than yours—

—Kevin Prufer, from “How He Loved Them.” Photography: Melissa Catanese.

[comicsalliance]

Enter Hamlet, Skateboarding: ‘Dirtbag Hamlet’ Births A Modern Classic

GHOST: hamlet you must avenge my death HAMLET: i dont have to do anything youre not even my real dad GHOST: yes i am HAMLET: whatever Read More.

[deanblumberg]

Reading Quiz 1.

[millionsmillions]

The new Hemingway App doesn’t approve of Ernest Hemingway’s writing.

[theatlantic]

What College Graduates Regret

Half wish they’d gotten more work experience while still in school.

Read more. [Image quinn.anya/Flickr]

[theparisreview]

Charles Bukowski’s final poetry reading. (via)

[deanblumberg]

Award-winning Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. Don't forget to pick this one up, English 102 students! We will be starting it very soon.

[esskayjii]