By Erin E. Templeton This weekend marks the return of one of my favorite contests: The Washington Post’s annual Peeps Diorama contest. Here are the winners and finalists for 2014. Also sharing in the Peeps love, Slate asks, “What happens when you throw a Peep out an airlock?” This experiment builds …read more
April 2014 archive
Apr 07
Crowd-Sourcing Examinations
By Erin E. Templeton [Note: this post is adapted from part of a talk I recently gave to the NJEDge Annual Faculty Showcase.] It’s no secret that we at ProfHacker like GoogleDocs. Ryan Cordell has used Google Docs to run a peer-review writing workshop, and George Williams has previously written about …read more
Apr 04
Weekend Reading: April is the Cruelest Edition
By Erin E. Templeton Happy Friday ProfHackers! Here’s to hoping that your April is off to a better start than T. S. Eliot’s. If you suffer from seasonal allergies, now might be the time to double-down on your allergy meds and any other preventative measures that you can find. According to the …read more