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Top 10 resources to help teachers manage their time. Using time efficiently is an essential skill for any teacher, but with a largely self-determined schedule outside of classroom hours it can be easy to feel overworked.

Top 10 resources to help teachers manage their time

These resources will help you keep on top of daily tasks, maintain your work-life balance and avoid being asked to leave your classroom by the caretaker every evening. A teacher's guide to procrastination. Teachers Can Be More Effective With an Efficient Document Management System. Regardless of whether you’re a primary, secondary or college/university educator, being a teacher or professor is one of the most demanding and time-consuming jobs in the world.

Teachers Can Be More Effective With an Efficient Document Management System

It’s not a job where you simply clock in and out at a set time and switch off. They have to be so much more than employees. They have to prepare lesson plans, tests, theoretical and practical exams, teach classes and assess assignments. They can’t do it all during school hours and so they end up taking work home with them to complete in the evenings and over the weekends. Most teachers have to deal with more than one class and some also teach different subjects. Instead of using an archaic alphabetical document management system, it would benefit teachers greatly to utilize a more flexible filing software system. They can use categories including: student names, subjects, exams, tests and any other types of categories that may be relevant. Trello for real estate. Technology Resource Teachers. Printer-friendly version Send by email Trello is a collaborative planning tool that lets you plan projects, plan lessons or untis, organize your writing, create science labs, planning professional development events, or any other task that requires you to plan and assign tasks to a group of students or teachers.

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Curriculum Connections Project Based LearningMulti-day Science LabsWriting ProcessGraphic OrganizerSorting Equipment Needed. Trello – Collaborative Projects. Trello – Collaborative Projects Written by Teach Amazing!

Trello – Collaborative Projects

Trello is a tool for organizing collaborative projects. 7 Steps To Creating The Best Personal Task Management System With Trello. Cloud Storage Face-off: Dropbox vs Google Drive vs SkyDrive. If you follow hongkiat.com closely, you’ll know that we have mentioned Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive before.

Cloud Storage Face-off: Dropbox vs Google Drive vs SkyDrive

In this article, we’re going to compare these three cloud storage services head to head. (Image Source: Jonas Rask) Cloud storage services are so handy nowadays as it saves space on your portable drive, smartphone or computer; it syncs all your files throughout all your devices, its cross-platform compatibility and best of all, you can get storage space for free. Sharing big or multiple files is also made easy while it securely keeps your files away from public computers. Note: This article will involve a lot of in depth information that might be lengthy to read; if you want a gist comparison of the three services, check out the Table of Comparison. 1.

Each service offers different amounts of free storage and a variety of premium storage spaces. Dropbox Dropbox Teams provides a solution for large groups of users, between 5 and 50 users. Google Drive. Welcome to Forbes. CatchApp Review – Catch Up With Your Team. CatchApp Review – Worthwhile tool if you use business apps on a regular basis When you’ve got an office full of colleagues working at warp speed, it can be difficult to keep up with what everyone has going on.

CatchApp Review – Catch Up With Your Team

Although popular business tools like Basecamp, Box, Google Drive, and Yammer help individuals stay on top of professional projects, using so many separate applications can sometimes make it even more difficult for large teams to work together efficiently. CatchApp has developed a solution that makes it easy for people to catch up on everything their colleagues are working, wherever they’re located in the world. In this CatchApp review, I plan on trying out the popular business application and seeing how it functions in a real work environment. Paying close attention to features like real-time monitoring, lists, commenting, and push notifications, I will describe my experience using the app and recommend whether large teams should give the tool a try.

Main Functionality of CatchApp. Welcome Board. Top Anti-Procrastination Apps or How to Fight Procrastination Using Digital Tools. Procrastination is quite a common, some might even say unavoidable “disease” in the academic world.

Top Anti-Procrastination Apps or How to Fight Procrastination Using Digital Tools

Even though it is perceived by many to be a problem most affecting college students, in reality procrastinators are found at every level of seniority. In fact, many remarkable people were affected by this phenomenon. One of them, Nobel Prize winner George Akelrof, devoted a significant part of his research to procrastination after recognizing a procrastinator in himself – he realized that it is much more than just a productivity breaker, and can reveal a lot about rational thinking. Now procrastination is an academic field in itself and the origins of this phenomenon can be easily explained from the scientific point of view.

In economics terms, it results from a so-called “hyperbolic discounting”, where short-term considerations of individuals overtake their long-term goals. 1. Productivity tools screen timer. The Blank Checklist Template - Stan's Free Ebooks. SimplyChecklists.com. Printable Checklist. 5 Tips to Get Organized and Reduce Stress. We want to get organized and reduce stress, but the truth is that our stress is keeping us from getting organized!

5 Tips to Get Organized and Reduce Stress

Once we take that step to get organized we will be taking steps to reduce stress. Free Printable Checklist: Click, Print and Tick!