Part 3 in an ongoing series about the Getting Things Done productivity philosophy for higher education people looks at a variant called Zen To Done, and its focus acquiring ten important habits for productivity.
There's so much to do at the beginning of the semester. One thing you _don't_ have to do on the first day, is have your office hours set. Instead, let your students help decide them.
Do you ever get tired of being asked when you'll be done grading something? Here's how to use Trello to create a public grading status board that gives students the info they need.
In this second post on GTD for academics, we look at the question of knowing what to do with our time, why a system for helping us decide is important, and what a good system looks like -- and doesn't look like.
How do those of us in academia manage our time, tasks, and projects so that we have happiness, balance, and productivity? It's a question that's hard to answer but in this series of posts about the Getting Things Done system, I'll give it a go.
