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.

The Power of the Micro Screencast: How Educators Can create GIFs to Save Time and Enhance Learning

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Everyone loves GIFs. As I’m sure you  know, you can now easily search Twitter for GIPHY.com Gifs to share. They seem to be everywhere. https://twitter.com/mjkushin/status/771089330563604480 But how can GIFs enhance your job as a professor and help your students learn more all while […]

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Edit Faster: Stop Wasting Time with Unnecessary Scrolling in Microsoft Word

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Hope summer is off to a great start! If you’re like me, summer means writing, writing, writing! As I like to do once in a while, I thought I’d share another productivity tip for professors. Today’s tip has to do with Microsoft Word. […]

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What I’ve learned in 10 Years of Teaching College (And Why I Give My Students High Fives)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It is hard to believe. But, I’ve just completed teaching at the university level for 10 academic years. At the age of 24, I  began teaching as a graduate student in 2006 at Washington State University where I independently taught 2 classes a […]

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#Hokies Tweets Network Visualization: How I extracted Tweets via TAGS 6 and visualized them in Gephi

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. A professional development goal of mine is to learn a lot more about social network analysis and visualization of social media data. This area has grown increasingly valuable and important in our field.  And I believe we all need to have at least […]

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Time Management: How to Read when You Don’t Have Time with These Tricks

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I like to write posts every once in a while about productivity tips and tricks or time savers. That’s because I know I love reading these types of posts and believe maybe some of the tricks I’ve picked up along the way might […]

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Google Scholar Tutorial: Power User’s Guide: Research Recommendations (3 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Google Scholar Tutorial: Part 3 – Getting the Most From Research Recommendations This is the third and final post on what’s been a popular Google Scholar Tutorial on becoming a Google Scholar power user. Post #1 explored the advanced search features of Google […]

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