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Category Archives: Productivity

Technology updates…Keynote Projecting issues

September 21, 2011

It’s been a while, and we are now about a month into the semester.  Time to update on how my …

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Project Management for Academics – An Introduction

July 18, 2011

One of the interesting things that comes with a 20 year pre-PhD career is experience in  areas that most academics …

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Developing a new course: 10 questions to ask yourself

July 6, 2011

One part of holding a PhD is teaching, and part of teaching is developing a new course.  Now, I use …

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A framework for a coherent research platform

June 26, 2011

When I first started looking in to student and academic productivity, one of the first bloggers I stumbled upon was …

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Changing the technology I use to teach

June 19, 2011

Last week I was beginning the process of preparing for next semester.  I had some level of dissatisfaction with the …

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Lesson 3: Dissertation productivity requires different tools

May 7, 2011

When I first started this blog (during my coursework) one of my biggest concerns was productivity; how was I going …

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A simple object lesson…

April 17, 2011

In case you were wondering if I was being paranoid in my last post about managing drafts, and in my …

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Back to work….

January 1, 2011

Today is January 1st.  Time to get back to work if I’m going to finish up by April and defend …

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You can’t plan your time if you don’t know where you really spend it

December 7, 2010

I was talking to some new students and realized something.  One of the reasons we fail to integrate our school …

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Mendeley, Part II

November 3, 2010

I’m as bad as anyone else.  Sometimes procrastination just happens, and some of it happened this weekend.  I started playing …

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