Scheduling Yourself, Pacing Yourself
…Or “getting things done” as one popular movement around time management attempts to do. This is my struggle and many of you struggle with this too. I don’t want to focus on why we don’t get things done but what we can use to better manage our time. I found a tool by accident this morning as I was looking for a to-do list for my partner who suffer from NGTD (not getting things done) worse than me.
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How to set up your own educational social network using Buddypress
In my last post, I claimed that the WordPress community has begun responding to the complaint that
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For your educational network, personal learning network, or special interest social network, you’re missing an opportunity if you leap from Ning to another hosted service before fully considering Buddypress
I was actually surprised to find out that my colleagues in the education technology realm would be shamed by being fooled twice. When Ning announced its sweeping cuts in personnel and move to a paid model this Spring, every big network community manager quickly realized that for them, the cost now outweighed the benefit and it was time to jump ship. And as we lined up before the gang plank, we expressed our outrage at Ning for committing such a heinous crime — CHARGING PEOPLE FOR SERVICES RENDERED??!! How COULD they?!??! Everything up to here makes sense to me. It’s what happened next that doesn’t. I’m sure it was the fear of moving users into a new eco-system and the perils of the ocean under that gang plank that skewed their judgement because, according to my extremely in-the-know blog sister, The Innovative Educator, most of my brothers and sisters, after considering the free alternatives ::holding back tears, voice jittery :: opted to…. go with another hosted solution????? Now you’d think all the creative writing here is intended to pique your interest. No, actually I like being dramatic but enough of that, let me explain.
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Technology Omnivore classification from Pews Internet & American Life Report
Jamestown Tyran on a pleasant spring day
Hello invisible readership. I am re-introducing myself to you as therapy for my horrible addiction. I am addicted to technology. I suffer horribly from my inability to stop using technology or reading about it or talking about it. My therapist (a very knowledgeable chat-bot AI) says the problem is that I’m not sharing out what I am learning and that I am suffering from technology overload. So here goes…
Hi, my name is Jamestown Tyran, and I am a technology omnivore. When I go to work I love technology, when I come home, I use my laptop, in the middle and before and after I have my cell phone permanently attached to my hands and I can’t stop using it. When it’s time to eat, I go on seamlessweb, when it’s time to sleep I can’t because I am learning about new apps for my phone, when it’s time to … well you get it. I’ve slept with my laptop, gone swimming with my phones, and so I am a technology omnivore.
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