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A Peek Inside My Teaching Team’s Task Tracker

TLDR: This post is a behind-the-scenes look at a task tracker I’ve developed over years of managing teaching teams (from 3 to 36 teaching…

23h ago

Screenshot of some of the lists from the Trello board.

23h ago

Helping Students Connect the Dots: The Power of a Class Plan Slide

While going through my mid-semester survey this semester, I discovered an expert blind spot in myself. One variation of an expert blind…

Mar 22

A screenshot of a slide with lines including “mid-semester survey report back”, a bullet saying “Struggles in Prepare” with multiple subbullets under it.

Mar 22

Generative AI Thoughts, Timestamp Fall 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) exploded into the academic teaching landscape in 2021, and we have been coping ever since. I’ve been quietly thinking…

Dec 14, 2024

An AI-generated image that says “Geneerative AI Thoughts Timestamp Fall 2024” (yes, it did make a typo)

Dec 14, 2024

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…

Oct 14, 2024

Oct 14, 2024

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, 2024

Jul 23, 2024

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, 2024

May 17, 2024

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, 2024

Mar 6, 2024

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

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

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

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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