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Kristin Stephens-Martinez

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Your Productivity System Needs to Evolve with You

If you follow this blog at all, you know how much I love thinking about productivity (to-do list tracking, calendar time management, time…

3d ago

3d ago

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

How I Track My Time

A common tactic for better managing your workload is tracking how you spend your time. But what does that even mean? Most of what I’ve read…

Jul 23

Jul 23

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Shared Inboxes for Teaching and Committees

A shared inbox was a tool I started using when I was the hybrid chair of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. It was extremely useful then, and…

May 17

May 17

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Revisit: How I organize the teaching staff of my 200+ student class

When it comes to anyone’s advice on how to run your own course, your “mileage may vary.” So, I thought it would be interesting to revisit…

Mar 6

Mar 6

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Using My Calendar to Audit My Time (Calendar Time Management Part 4)

So, first, I wrote about my general philosophy and mechanics of using my calendar for time management. Then, I introduced the idea of…

Dec 21, 2023

Picture of a calendar with event names blurred out, it is very colorful, compact, and seems organized. This is is before the week started.

Dec 21, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Color Coding for Clarity (Calendar Time Management, Part 3)

For my third post on how I use my calendar as a tool to manage my time, I thought I’d write about something more fun: color! I color-code…

Nov 14, 2023

A calendar with many colored events that fill almost all of 8am to 7pm on weekdays and chunks of the weekend.

Nov 14, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Adding Flexibility with Buffer Times (Calendar Time Management, Part 2)

This is the second post of a series on how I use my calendar as a tool to manage my time. My first post focused on the basics where, to me…

Oct 16, 2023

Oct 16, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Using a Calendar for Better Time Management: What I do (Part 1)

I use Trello to keep track of everything I have to do, as seen by my multiple blog posts on it (task tracking for a big class, personally…

Sep 25, 2023

Sep 25, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Management skills, professors need them too

An underlying current in my blog post series on how I manage the teaching staff for my 200+ student CS1 class is that teaching large…

Jun 20, 2023

Jun 20, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Hybrid Chair for SIGCSE TS 2023 (Round 2)

Time for a reflection on being the Hybrid Experience chair for SIGCSE TS 2023, a.k.a. round 2! This year was so much more manageable in…

Apr 18, 2023

Histogram of total hours spent per week for SIGCSE TS 2023 from -49 weeks from the conference to 4 weeks after. All bars are 10 hours or less except for the week of the conferences at 36 hours.

Apr 18, 2023

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Creator and host of The CS-Ed Podcast https://csedpodcast.org/ Associate Professor of the Practice in Computer Science at Duke University.

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