I’m a bit of an addict when it comes to reading productivity and uncluttering blogs and websites. Lately I’ve been reading and thinking about ways to cut out little niggles and time-wasters in one’s life. It’s too short to walk further than you need to on a daily basis or
Show me someone who doesn’t want to save time and work more effectively, and I’ll show you someone who’s about to retire! Most of us can do with tools and techniques to help us get more done by working smarter. Here are my top 5 suggestions: Inbox rules: most people
Saving time – vital… Here are some of the ways I’m saving time and managing information flow at the moment: Creating shortcuts on my desktop to my most-used folders – a no-brainer I think. To keep track of multiple projects effectively I like to keep my files in neatly organised
A new e-moderating course for practising teachers and tutors in FE starts today and another (for academic staff in HE) is into its second week starting tomorrow. In both cases it is about experiencing e-learning as a student as well as developing practical skills for online teachers. I am always
1. Use a to-do list I use a weekly list rather than a daily list and even then it is sometimes an “everything I have to do” list. There are several online tools that can help with making lists, including wrike.com, rememberthemilk.com and joesgoals.com (see previous post). 2. Prioritise Do
Debbie Weil writes in the Guardian about one way to deal with an overload of email. Well, we all face it to some extent, don’t we? Two bloggers in the US have declared themselves ’email bankrupt.’ Fred Wilson declared: ‘I am so far behind on email that I am declaring