Time Management Tips For, Well, Everyone

By Katie Lepi

At this point, most of you probably know that I am a huge procrastinator. And I’m easily distracted –staying focused is absolutely not my forte. I use a number of different tools (like SelfControl, which is my go-to anti-time waster) pretty consistently to make sure I’m checking enough things off my to-do list.  The handy slideshare below offers 24 time management tips to keep your productivity machine humming along. They can be useful whether you’re a student or a teacher – and they’re definitely worth sharing with your office dwelling friends! Keep reading to learn more!

24 Time Management Tips

1. Define your purpose – it helps release you from non-essential activities
2. Take action – don’t wait for a better time to start
3. Focus – commit to a single task for an extended period of time and be fully engaged
4. Overcome procrastination – don’t postpone unpleasant tasks
5. Set deadlines – it will help you budget your time
6. Stop multitasking – it tends to lead to many projects started and few finished
7. Stop checking your email so often – email is one of the biggest productivity killers
8. Empty your inbox – take action after every email you read
9. Prioritize – focus on high importance items
10. Do not confuse urgent with important – very often these ‘urgent’ tasks are much less important
11. Write things down – don’t overload yourself just trying to remember
12. Use a weekly planner – you’ll already know how you’re going to use your time
13. Organize your stuff – and you won’t waste time trying to find things
14. Be punctual – last minute is always stressful
15. Make the most out of every meeting – use an agenda, have a purpose, contribute, and work to keep everyone on task
16. Limit social media – it makes your brain tired from processing useless information
17. Stop reading news – it wastes time on things you cannot influence
18. Take breaks – everyone needs a recharge to continue to produce high quality work
19. Eat healthy – it helps you perform better
20. Exercise more – it helps increase your brain power
21. Get enough sleep – it will help you work better during the day
22. Become an early riser – mornings are a great time to be productive
23. Rebuild your habits – to help you become more effective
24. Act responsibly – it is your time and you are in charge of how you spend it

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Why It’s Time To Change How Students Cite Their Work

By Shawn McCusker

When students write a paper, it goes without saying that they must cite the sources that they use in creating it. For generations, students have created note cards to document and organize these resources and/or submitted a bibliography page with their finished work.

In the modern classroom, student research and creation has taken on a new look. Before, when students created a poster, and then separately handed in a bibliography page to the teacher, justice was done and fair credit was given for the ideas used.

However, as widespread sharing of these projects becomes more common, and the internet allows students to reach an audience far beyond the school or classroom, we need to re-evaluate this procedure and address our responsibility to share these sources – not just with the teacher or school, but with all who might consume the project.

Without readily available sources to review, the audience cannot truly evaluate the validity of the project. They are left with what might be a beautiful and elegant project (the product) without knowing the sources used to construct it (the process).

Sharing sources with an audience is how we can focus on the PROCESS of creation rather than seeing only the PRODUCT.

Sharing Sources of Student Work

1. Include citations for individual pieces of information within the products themselves. This method has the advantage of sharing the sources with those who are consuming the project. For a classroom, this further engages the class in evaluating the sources that are used and allows them to ask “is that a valid source?” or “does that source have a perspective or a bias?”

2. Have students create a traditional bibliography page in Google Drive and include a link to it on their project. This will increase the likelihood that students will explore sources and evaluate projects at a deeper level. The same could be done with Evernote or a shared document in Dropbox.

3. For traditional paper projects, science fair projects, posters, mobiles or other display work, have the students provide a shortened URL to let others find and explore their works cited as they view the product. This will also work for electronic work such as Prezis, Glogsters, Popplets, Google Presentations or online videos. Shortnened URLs can be created at tinyurl.com or by using chrome extensions such as goo.gl URL shortener.

3. In place of a Tiny URL, use a QR code to link viewers to works cited. QR codes can be created for free using QR Kaywa or QRCode Monkey. QR codes are an image file that can be easily added to online projects, and are equally effective when added to the end of videos.

In our information-rich world, accessing information is a daily activity, making it essential to credit the sources being used. This is no less true in elementary school, high school or college. The “Culture of Creation” that emerges in connected classrooms makes this even more important, and putting it at the forefront of creation will allow for a healthy and necessary evaluation of how classwork is created and the ideas used to do so. 

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