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The Notebook
Oh, I am not talking about the movie. I love a good tearjerker, but I actually have not seen it. I am talking about ordinary spiral notebooks and how they have helped me with administrative tasks. In...
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Communicating While Apart
As anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook is probably aware, I bought an iPod Touch a couple of weeks ago, and I have been playing with a lot of the apps that ProfHacker has written about over...
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My Magnetic Bulletin Board
Last summer, Erin wrote about how and why she converted one of the walls in her home into a giant chalkboard. I have always wanted to have a large, metal bulletin board in my office. When people...
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Sabbatical Diary: What They Are and How to Apply for One
Over the next year, I will be cutting back my ProfHacker posts to one per month as I will be on sabbatical. Since our goal here at PH is to talk about ways of handling various aspects of academic...
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Sabbatical Diary: Starting from a Strong Foundation
Last month, I kicked off what will be a year-long series on life during a sabbatical. In today’s post, I hope to generate some discussion about what you can do before a sabbatical begins so you start...
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Sabbatical Diary: Preparing Financially
In this third part of my sabbatical diary, I want to focus on one of the most important parts of the sabbatical: the money. At my institution, a semester-long sabbatical comes with full salary. A...
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Sabbatical Diary: Finding Grants and Fellowships
In last month’s installment to my sabbatical diary, I discussed general ways to prepare financially if your sabbatical involves a paycut. In this month’s installment, I want to shift to another...
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Sabbatical Diary: The Shadow of Self-Doubt
While previous entries in my sabbatical diary have been more like traditional ProfHacker posts offering a few bits of advice and asking for more, this one is more like a diary because it’s been in my...
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Sabbatical Diary: When and Where to Work
In previous entries of my sabbatical diary, one topic that arose was how to handle expansive periods of unstructured time. It’s an area with which I had a lot of concern when I started, for sure. I...
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Sabbatical Diary: A Day of Nothing
In this sabbatical diary, I (and some great commenters) have discussed the best ways to create a productive work environment when you get that deeply-deserved time away from campus. Today, though, I...
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