Copy and paste any new vocabulary from websites into evernote. Then change the font size to 24 or 36 and then download that note to your pod or phone for viewing. Study notes on the go. Can be used for any subject of course without the need for making PDF files or downloading from email.
www.evernote.com
News: Credit for Teaching – Inside Higher Ed.
http://trails.asanet.org/Pages/default.aspx
This is an interesting initiative to peer review and share teaching materials in sociology. Especially in the field of ESP, there is a lack of ways to share quality teaching materials and for faculty to get some credit for them. There is too much emphasis on publishing papers that may only have a limited impact in a field when there would be a much wider audience for quality teaching. The materials must not only be peer reviewed but the authors have to provide evidence of effectiveness–making it more like an action research project.
After a first draft, or for difficult sections of articles such as the discussion section, I recommend printing out your draft on paper or writing an outline AFTER the first draft to help you restructure or even just see the structure of your writing. The screen forces us to look and think more at a paragraph level of writing and it is not always the best way to do document or section level editing.
Video of how a Ph.D. student integrates mindmapping and Zotero citation software (for Firefox) into his dissertation writing process.
Great idea!
http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/jars.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/netcrit/quizlet-free-flashcards-from-paper