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.

Google Scholar Tutorial: Become A Google Scholar Power User – Scholar Profiles (Post 2 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Google Scholar Tutorial: Part 2: Using Scholar Profiles Thanks to everyone who read my first post in this three-part tutorial on becoming a Google Scholar Power User:  advanced features of Google Scholar search. If you haven’t read it, check it out. If you […]

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Google Scholar Tutorial: Become a Google Scholar Power User (Part 1 of 3)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Google Scholar Tutorial This is Part 1 in a 3-part Google Scholar tutorial to help you become a Google Scholar Power User. I love Google Scholar. It is useful for not only your research agenda, but also it is a tool to teach […]

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The Most Important Tool for Research Collaboration: Dropbox

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. How to Use Dropbox for Academic Research Collaboration Now that the semester is over, there are two major things I like to spend my break doing: research projects and optimizing my classes with mods and improvements (or creating new classes, if needed). So, […]

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Are Your Classroom Handouts Stuck In the Last Century?

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. A little while ago I posted about just how useful screencasting is for teaching students how to use tools and software on the computer/web. I also recently posted on a favorite image screen capture Chrome add-on that makes it super easy to grab […]

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Take Screen Shots Efficiently with Awesome Screenshot

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In addition to discussing social media education and trends on this blog, I like to share tech tools and tricks that can help an educator out! I’m a big proponent of using screenshots to quickly show students (or anyone!) how to do something […]

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#TryThis! Teach Technology and Save Class Time with Screencasting

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The start of the semester is right around the corner. So I thought it’d be fun to do series of posts titled #trythis! on teaching tools and techniques I hope you will try this fall. The first is an invaluable tool I’ve been […]

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Scholars: Save Time With Mendeley’s New Literature Search Feature

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Let’s face it, the time it takes to find the citations you need is slowing down the research process. Tools like Google Scholar have made it much easier for academic researchers to search for and find academic research. But there’s another player out […]

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