Freebie Friday - Seasoning Packets for Professors-On-The-Go Who Love to Cook!

Readers,


As a professor-on-the-go, I strive to create healthy meals for my family. However, my crazy schedule only enables me to go shopping at our local Kroger store only one time a week. To make my life easier, I purchase frozen skillet meals (i.e. PF Changs, and Romanos Macaroni Grill, and Stouffers) and seasoning packets for my fresh meats and garden veggies. 


Recently, I discovered a free sample from Emeril's and I look forwarding to using this seasoning packet with a future meal! :) Enjoy!


Sincerely,


Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Wandering Wednesdays - The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (The TLT Group)

Readers,


Since last summer, I have been a huge fan of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT Group). I visit their website almost every week and I faithfully read their blog. They usually host free workshops, like last week's "FridayLive Twitter: Forbid It, Ignore It, or Use It?" - http://tltgroup.roundtablelive.org/events?eventId=310889&EventViewMode=EventDetails.


In addition to their wonderful free workshops, they also have a great blog, "TLT-SWG". Recently, this blog featured a post titled, "A Course is Not a Pizza", which focuses on the importance of interaction in online courses - http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2011/05/course-is-not-pizza.html.


Check out their website as well!  http://www.tltgroup.org/


Enjoy!


Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

College Students, Technology, and Free Food = Food-Bot

Readers,

As a former college student, I appreciate free food. As a millennial, I really appreciate awesome technology! Greg Woloschyn, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, created an awesome website titled, Food-Bot. This website searches every mailing list on campus, searching for food-related keywords like “snack,” “cookie,” and “pizza.” last year. Sometimes the website fails to provide accurate results, for example a "bring your own lunch" entry was on the website's fail list. Woloschyn's invention enabled WoloSchyn and his friends to spend their funds on other items.

Check out his website - http://food-bot.com/home

Currently, only a few universities (Stanford, Carnegie Melton, Berkeley, Duke, UIllinois, MIT, Pittsburgh, Wootster, Case Western, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Purdue) are included on the website, but it seems that the website is expanding (i.e. - the sentence on the website "Don't see your university? Request for it to be added so you can get in on the free food"...)

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Green Printing for Students, Faculty, and Staff! - Some Great Tips from Environmental Communication Week @ Tarleton State University

Readers,


During Environmental Communication Week 2011, we were fortunate to have two wonderful presenters from our university's library (the Dick Smith library) and the Center for Instructional Technology and Distributed Education (CITDE) facilitate a session on Green Printing. Our university library (like many other university libraries) usually has a stack of papers that are left on the printers after the library closes each day. This presents a potential problem for our university (wasted paper) and the environment.


Here are some tips from their presentation...


- Be Patient (try not to print twice).
- Print Only What You Need (when listening to a presentation or lecture, ask which notes should be printed and which notes can remain electronic).
- Print Selectively (highlight the section of a document that you need to print and only print this section instead of the entire page)
- Print On Both Sides of Paper (duplex printing).
- Print Power Point Slides as Handouts Instead of the Actual Slides.
- Use Electronic Handouts (distribute a tinyurl link in class).
- Select the CENTURY GOTHIC font to save ink/toner. 


Here's their handout - LINK


This was a neat presentation and I adopted some of the suggestions from the presentation in my classes. I cannot wait to prepare "green" power point/Google Doc slides for the fall semester. 


Sincerely,


Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.