You got the call! The moment you have been painstakingly waiting for – a tenure track job offer. Even though everything in academia moves at a snail’s pace, this is one area where things will suddenly speed up. Once you receive the job offer you need to make sure that you know their timeline (if […]
If you hang out in the academic spaces that I do then you have probably heard that Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are going to change the entire identity and landscape of how autistic people receive training and instruction. VR has seemingly been the hyped up technology for years now and you might be wondering to […]
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In this video I tell three amusing but awful stories from my worst conference experiences. From having my hotel reservation being given away, to staying in a college frat house and a beloved dog dying, and getting stuck in an airport for an entire day because I could not afford lodging. Academic conferences can be […]
This week I have worked on this week: Writing a proposal for the International Society of the Learning Sciences with the goal of presenting a poster related to the design and development of a Virtual Reality classroom that can be used to measure a learner’s engagement, attention, and executive function as they interact with instructional […]
In this video I discuss the academic job hunt that I went through from the Fall of 2019 to the Spring of 2020. I use SankeyMATIC to create a branching chart that represents how many jobs I applied for, how many I interviewed with, and the ultimate outcomes of these applications. Over the course of […]
In this video I discuss Three Tools for Increasing your Writing Productivity as a PhD Student or an academic. The three tools discussed are Zotero (for Google docs), Greenshot, and Crossreference (for Google docs). These tools have saved me hundreds of hours of work as I completed my dissertation and are ones that I continue […]