Category: Tips Tricks and Productivity

Teacher and Academia Productivity Tips and Tricks

Being Productive while Teaching is a Challenge. If you’re a university professor, there’s service and research too! And you’re supposed to keep a work-life balance? Sheesh!

Below, you’ll learn how to rev up your output, both inside and outside of university life, all while keeping your sanity.

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Essential Classroom Technology Tools for Teaching Social Media in 2020

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This page may contain affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, if you click a link and make a purchase, I will make a commission. Please read my disclosure for details. Classroom Technology Tools Recently, I started sharing about a few of the smartphone accessories I’ve been playing with to create video for […]

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Are Your Classes Suffering from “Assignment Creep?”

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Are my classes suffering from ‘assignment creep?” I’ve been thinking about this concept a lot lately as I’ve been teaching some of the same courses for the past few years. You’ve probably heard of “feature creep.” A quick search of Google reveals this […]

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An Easy System for Keeping Your Daily Lessons Organized (Case #2 of Putting Systems Thinking to Practice)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In a recent post, I discussed creating simple systems to help you work more effectively and reduce unnecessary cognitive load. It isn’t necessary to read that post to benefit from this post. But, I encourage you to save it to read some time. […]

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Why I No Longer Schedule Meetings with Students Over Email (Case #1 of Putting Systems Thinking to Practice)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In a previous post, I talked about the power of systems to simplify recurring tasks in our jobs as professors. In that post I mentioned that we can work to remove bottlenecks that unnecessarily slow down the completion of tasks. Here’s one such […]

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Use Simplicity and Systems To Have More Time and Energy to Do What You Love

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I had an amazing time at the PRSA Educator’s Academy Super Saturday on October 22 presenting on tools educators can use to break down the classroom walls. After our presentation, Ai Zhang, Karen Freberg, and I were asked how we manage to engage […]

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What I’m Reading And How You Can Read It Too

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. “Always Be Reading” is my motto. As professionals, we are constantly seeking to stay up to date with news, trends and developments. So I’m excited to write this quick off-week post between our regularly scheduled program to announce that you can now follow […]

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