organize your digital self
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This “going digital” can be a bit overwhelming. How do you manage the mountain of email and grading? How do you keep track of your links, files, and website materials? How do you go about organizing and sifting through the vast array of resources on the Internet and turning them into an easy‐to‐use and coherent set of learning materials for the teaching? Let me share some of my strategies for coping with the information overload and the new digital era.TRANSCRIPT
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What this presentation is not about …learning all the
details of how to use a specific program
What this presentation
is about …awareness
featurestweaksideas
*full disclosure
in case you get the notion at some point during this presentation that I must be getting paid to mention some of the software in this
presentation, I can assure you that I don’t
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this is the goal
don‘t answer your email, process it
don‘t answer your email, process it
delete
don‘t answer your email, process it
deletenon-response
delete archive
don‘t answer your email, process it
deletenon-response
short response
delete archive
don‘t answer your email, process it
deletenon-response
short responsedefer
Move tasks to a TO-DO list and then Archive the emails
LEFT SIDEIdeas, Notes, Papers, New Terms, Random
RIGHT SIDETasks, Large &
Small, No order
Completed Task Lists get crossed out, but the ideas remain.
Get control of your email!
if possible, consolidate email accounts
if possible, consolidate email accounts
learn how to use search
Get control of your email!
if possible, consolidate email accounts
learn how to use search
minimize the number of folders or labels
Get control of your email!
if possible, consolidate email accounts
learn how to use search
minimize the number of folders or labels
set up rules or filters to deal with recurring emails
Get control of your email!
How to start?
move all email in existing inbox to a separate folder
Boomerang for Gmail
Send an email laterGet a follow-up reminder
if there is no response
Gmail LabsCanned Responses
Pictures in ChatRight-side ChatSend & Archive
Undo SendSMS from Chat
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when will you use website bookmarks?
when will you use website bookmarks?
when you’re on the Internet
where is the most logical
place to store those
bookmarks?
on the Internet
where is the most logical
place to store those
bookmarks?
less obvious, but just as good
BlogsCourse ShellsMindmapsWebsites
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treat the internetas an extension of
your brain
file cabinet + personal assistant
+ learning diary
digitalmindmaps
Use a blog to reflect, share, and store what you learn.
Screencaststo remindyourselfhow to dosomething(try Jing)
rss
rss
Tweet what you learn
note-taking
note-taking
a.nnotate
course shells
course shells
course shells
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web-based project-management
Less formal:Use web-based
Collaborative Tools
Google Docs
Google Spreadsheets
Public or Private?
Viewer or Editor?
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instant messaging
socialnetworks
if you’re not careful, you can spend your
whole life checking to see what’s happening
in your life
digsby
digsby on my desktop(2nd monitor)
send IM or email
IM:
customizablenotification settings
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Google Calendar
Use a different calendar for each type of activity.
Daily AgendaNotifications
Find it in Calendar Settings Notifications Check box
Embed your calendar ona public web page
NOTE: The calendar(s) you want to embed must be shared publically first.
Schedule a Meeting: Doodle.com
Schedule Appointments: Tungle.me
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if all you do on your computer is work, it’s time to play a little …
socializea little
if you think you waste too much time playing and not enough time
working …
track what you’re actually doing
StayFocusd for Chrome
if you just lose track of time …
WorkPace WorkRave
Final random organizational
thoughts
is awesome
so areBrenthavenbackpacks
and TripIt.com
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