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21st Century Time Saving

Page history last edited by Mary Ann Bell 12 years, 3 months ago
21st Century Time Saving Techniques
Communication Devices
·         Hand-held devices
·         Cell Phones
o   Learn to use your cell phone and put it to work for you
o   Use notepad/message feature
§ Audible reminders
§ Things you need to remember
·         Phones at school
o   I used to phone myself school to home and vice versa and remind myself to do things
o   I had students telephone themselves with overdue book reminders
INTERNET SERVICES
§ My four favorites:
o   Tada Lists--http://www.tadalist.com/
o   Google Calendar
o   43 Things--http://www.43things.com/
o   Bloglines RSS aggregator--http://www.bloglines.com
§ Other great choices
o   Remember the Milk—similar to Tada-- http://www.rememberthemilk.com
o   Memo to Me—another great way to nag yourself: http://www.memotome.com/
o   TaDa is really part of a bigger service called BackPack which offers schedules and other great resources: http://www.backpackit.com/
o   Here’s another with a fun name, Toodledoo: http://www.toodledo.com/
o   30 Boxes is one more! http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
§ Organize your home!
 
o   Always losing stuff? Try Pack and Find! http://www.packandfind.com/
o   Shop! Here’s the link to The Container Store, a place where I lose my self control… http://www.containerstore.com/index.jhtml
*  FLY LADY!!! People seem to really love this page! http://www.flylady.net/
 
 
 
 
GREAT WEBSITES FOR MORE IDEAS
§ Daytimers Online: http://www.daytimer.com/Time-Management-Resources/home/592ED5CDA619424D8124BE7577D3D8D8/False and wouldn’t you think they had a tinyurl posted? Here is one: http://tinyurl.com/2kfb3u
§ Tinyurl is actually a great tool itself:  http://tinyurl.com/create.php
§ Life Organizers.Com: http://www.lifeorganizers.com/
§ Is all this making you crazy? Try Mental Health Tools! http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9770&cn=353
§  Common sense tips for home: http://organizedhome.com/
JUST FOR FUN—TIME MANAGEMENT CLICHES!
§ If you have to swallow some frogs, swallow the big one first.
§ Thinking is working!
§ Park on a down hill slope.
§ How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
§ Baby steps
§ Carpe dium
§ Time is money
§ Wouldn’t you know, there are websites out there that specialize clichés…Here is one: http://www.clichesite.com/category_results.asp?which=time
NOW…REWARD YOURSELF!
§ Here is a social networking site for shoppers—Wists! http://wists.com/
§ Top Ten Free Time Wasting Sites on the Web! http://freebies.about.com/od/710/tp/timewasting.htm
 FINAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT...TIME MANAGEMENT AND STUDENTS
This is a link to an article about students and online searching. We need to teach them that using Google is not ALWAYS the fastest solution! Databases are more authoritative and should be first choices for research.  ProQuest/Time Management Article
 

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