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How to Make an Academic Portfolio Using this Notion Template
In his last post, Rusty wrote about the Benefits of Using Notion for an Academic Portfolio. What do you think? Did the idea of creating a #NoCode, easily shareable, and customizable yet simple and professional academic portfolio sound like a good idea to you? If so,...
Benefits of using Notion for an Academic Portfolio
As we shared previously in “Why You Need an Academic Portfolio” we use both ORCID and Google Scholar Author Profiles to inform our academic portfolio for promotion, service, and tenure. In the previous post, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of both...
Academic Portfolios: Promoting Academic Work with Google Scholar and ORCID
There are many online services that can help you document and share your scholarly activities like publications and presentations on the web. While many of the most popular services do not require coding, they typically require frequent maintenance to make that your...
Why You Need an Academic Portfolio
How do you describe the academic work that you do? Think back to the last time someone not in your career field asked you to describe recent projects you were working on. Or to the last time that someone unexpectedly asked you to share your current CV, academic...
2 Ways to Accomplish Your Goals with Notion
Task & Goal Tracking During the Pandemic A practice that has been key to helping Rusty & I continue to move forward with accomplishing our goals & objectives related to research and scholarship is setting daily & weekly goals for ourselves. ⠀⠀We've...
Managing Remote Projects Effectively with an Action Dashboard
Abstract During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s library, learning center, & archives and the office of institutional research & training (OIRT), along with all departments of our college, shifted to working from home (WFH) during the...
How to Increase Your Productivity with Stream Deck
Lately I'm using a new (to me tool) called the Elgato Stream Deck to help me increase my work from home productivity and to explore educational use cases and I'm absolutely loving it. Check out this short demo video where I walk you through how I'm using it: Have you...
Notion for Academics: Style Your Fields
Today we’re continuing our Notion for Academics Video Series, Create a Daily Journal in Notion, with our second training video in the series – Style Your Fields. In this video, you’ll learn how to style your day fields for visual interest and organization. Creating a...
Notion for Academics: Start with a Table
Today we're continuing our Notion for Academics Video Series, Create a Daily Journal in Notion, with our first training video in the series - Start with a Table. In this video, you'll learn how to create the basic table you'll use to enter everything you'd like to...
Notion for Academics: Creating a Daily Journal in Notion
Today we're excited to share our latest video series: Creating a Daily Journal in Notion. In this video series, we walk you step by step through the process of creating a daily journal in Notion to track pretty much just about anything in an easy to set up format that...
