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Project Management for Academics – An Introduction

July 18, 2011

One of the interesting things that comes with a 20 year pre-PhD career is experience in  areas that most academics …

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7 tips for making sure your lecture’s aren’t deadly

July 11, 2011

Despite extensive discussion in education circles, the lecture is alive and well in college classrooms.  Constructivism is all well and …

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Organizing drafts

March 10, 2011

In talking to one of my students, I realized that my way of organizing drafts of documents might help others.  …

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Managing your book habit

November 29, 2007

I’ve never met an academic without a room full of books.  Or two.  Or three.  Rooms, I mean.  There are …

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Getting back on track

November 19, 2007

The job news this week really threw me for a loop.  There I was on Monday talking about creating a …

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New how-to article

November 13, 2007

Since this blog is moving in the direction of more musings and less how-to, I have agreed to write a …

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How to absorb a non-fiction book in a limited timeframe

November 6, 2007

One of the first things you are taught in a speed reading class is that it is as important to …

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The Academic Elevator Pitch

October 30, 2007

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Read your final draft out loud…

October 22, 2007

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Managing faculty

October 20, 2007

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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