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Category Archives: Productivity

Annual Reminders–Backup

March 16, 2010 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

Yet Another Backup Post. It won’t be the last.

Where’s the Prof?: Twitter Feeds for Your Office Door

March 16, 2010 in How-To, Productivity, ProfHacker by Jeff McClurken

In this post, I look at a software/hardware setup that allows you to update students and visitors to your office about your availability.

Graduated in Gmail: the Forgotten Attachment Detector

March 15, 2010 in Productivity by Natalie Houston

Ever send an email without the attachment you promised? Here’s how Gmail can save you from that error.

The ProfHacker Week in Review

March 14, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker’s traditionally late wrap-up of the week’s posts. This week with extra pi.

Weekend Reading, Still (!) Not Spring Break Edition

March 12, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker eases you into the weekend with 5 links worth reading, plus a video.

Distraction, Productivity, and Being Attentive (aka Regulating Media Use)

March 12, 2010 in Life, Productivity by Amy Cavender

Ever have one of those days at work in which you know you’ve been busy all day, but you can’t quite point to just what you’ve accomplished? Regulating media use may be worth considering.

How to Google Yourself Effectively and What to Do About It

March 11, 2010 in How-To, Productivity by Brian Croxall

What do you get when you Google yourself? More importantly, what can you do about it if you aren’t happy with the results?

Scrivener, Scrivening, Scriverastic

March 8, 2010 in Productivity, Products by Prof. Hacker

Guest author Ryan Cordell returns to explain the Mac-based word processor, Scrivener.

The Profhacker Week in Review

March 7, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker’s traditionally late wrap-up of the previous week’s posts.

Weekend Reading: Oscars edition

March 5, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker gets you ready for the weekend with five links plus a video.

5 Easy Speech-to-Text Solutions

March 3, 2010 in Productivity, Products by George H. Williams

My recent post about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for the transcription of digital audio has left me thinking about other options for doing the same task. In this post I provide an overview of 5 different digital tools for having spoken words transcribed into written text.

Green Tea (as Ritual and Relaxation)

March 2, 2010 in Life, Productivity by Billie Hara

Over the past weeks, ProfHacker has provided tips on how we can take care of ourselves during the busiest times of the semester, this midterm insanity. We have written about taking naps, balancing our lives, eating well, and trying a mind sweep. Today another tip: drinking some green tea.