10 rules to manage your boss
The relationship with your boss is probably the most important relationship you have at work. Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap [...]
Directory of open access journals
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2143 journals in the directory. Currently 584 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 91291 articles are [...]
FreeFullText.com Homepage
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical [...]
roachfiend.com » Word Count
Will count the number of words in any text that is selected. Simply highlight the text, right-click, and select “Word Countâ€. A pop-up window will show you how many words are in [...]
Text Area Word Counter Firefox Extension v. 0.4 by Gina Trapani
Text Area Word Counter is a Firefox extension by Gina Trapani which will give you the total number of words not including HTML entered into all the text areas in a document. Target audience is webloggers interested in post [...]
Levy: (Some) Attention Must Be Paid! – Newsweek Technology [...]
Q-Success – Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
While many brilliant books and articles have been written on good project management, there is little attention paid to all the possibilities a project manager has to create the appearance of managing a project well without the burden of actually doing it. The following article is a summary [...]
Townhall.com :: Columns :: I feel, therefore I am by Mike S. Adams – Mar 21, 2006
Good morning, students! I can see by the expressions on your faces that you are surprised to see me empty-handed this morning. After all, you took a test last class meeting and probably expected your results back today. [...]
Public speaking do’s and don’t’s – Lifehacker
As Jerry Seinfeld once noted, at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy, since public speaking stresses people out more than death. But giving talks doesn’t have to be such a frightening affair.
Whether you’re giving a talk at your local [...]
The Center For Effective University Teaching at Northeastern University
Teaching Matters is published several times each academic year. Included are descriptions of current advances in teaching, interviews of Northeastern faculty members doing innovative work in the classroom, articles written by and for faculty regarding teaching philosophies and tips, recommend books and/or Internet sites, and upcoming programs [...]
Key Resources in Library Automation
The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the [...]
Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Search Engine Ordering – All Releases
Rearrange the search engines in Firefox’ search bar! You can use Drag & Drop to change the order as you want or right click somewhere in the menu to sort them [...]
Online economics textbooks
John Kane at the University of Oswego has put together this fantastic list of free Econ textbooks in a wide variety of subjects and formats. There’s something here for economists at all levels. Dozens of books in categories including intro, macro, micro, econometrics, statistics, law and economics, and [...]
Christian Montoya » 14 Resources for the Artistically Challenged
You and I, we can’t do art. We just weren’t born with it. Remember art class? Sure, someone might have thought your work was special, but that was your mom. You were dealt some useless talent like math or programming, and visual design was something you [...]
Presentation: Tips and Tricks For Recovering a Rogue IT Project
Tonight I (Robert Bogue) gave a presentation to the TechPoint IT Professional Peer Group titled “Tips and Tricks for Recovering a Rogue IT Project†It was a great open discussion with 25 IT professionals about project management and the traps we all [...]
Introduction to Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technology
This series of articles on SharePoint is intended to help you understand the capabilities of the product, as well as provide tips and tricks, development ideas, information from Microsoft, information from the community, and perhaps some samples.
It will include how-to articles that can help you with your deployments; ways to [...]
dmiessler.com | blog
One of the main problems we as information fetishists face is the lack of a solid, repeatable methodology for processing new input online. Too often we bounce back and forth between this site and that site, maybe check a blog or two, and then half-heartedly label the task of “reading news†as completed. [...]
Here is a great way to integrate constructionism into on-line learning. Interesting lessons to be learned here.
Teach and Learn Online: Using Flickr and Wikipedia for new [...]
Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom :
If you’ve ever taught, you know that the best way to learn something is to not only do it but to teach it to [...]
Tama’s eLearning Blog » Blog Archive » Social Constructivisim
Although I’ve taught and talked a lot about the idea of constructivism in higher education, I’ve never quite made the obvious jump in terminology to Social Constructivisim (even though talking about constructivisim goes hand-in-hand with flagging the importance about making links with the existing knowledge and [...]