Writing Your Grad School Personal Statement: 3 Quick Tips

Tis' the season of love and jingly things... and also when grad school applications are due! If you are applying to a research program and are still finalizing your application, I have three tips here that might be of use: 1. Align your research interests with the faculty members' in the program It is often … Continue reading Writing Your Grad School Personal Statement: 3 Quick Tips

Network Visualization and Personal Learning Networks

I have written previously about connected learning and how to create a PLN (Personal Learning Network). This kind of learning is learning-on-demand, and it’s an amazing place for students to be. Yet, students need to able to actively and critically locate and handle the information made available by the Internet and social technologies. One way of entering … Continue reading Network Visualization and Personal Learning Networks

3 Tips for Creating Sharable Content

In the rising age of user-generated materials, creating sharable (or shareable) content has become an unspoken, necessary skill for professional communicators. While information gathering and writing on the web is becoming relatively effortless (thanks to intuitive web authoring tools), creating share-worthy content still requires strategic planning that takes into consideration the rhetorical aspects of communication. … Continue reading 3 Tips for Creating Sharable Content