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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...
What Collaboration Means to Us: Trust, Laughter, & Scholarly Productivity
Citation Rysavy, Monica and Michalak, Russell (2020) "What Collaboration Means to Us: Trust, Laughter, & Scholarly Productivity," Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 12 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available...
Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology (with Notion!)
Abstract During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s library and the office of institutional research & training (OIRT), along with all departments of our college, shifted to working from home (WFH) overnight. This column shares examples from...
Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology
Citation Rysavy, M.D.T. & Michalak, R. (2020) Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology, Journal of Library Administration, 60:5, 532-542. Abstract During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s library and the office of...
Notion for Academics: Adding columns with checklists to a Toggle List
Have you ever tried dragging columns into a Toggle List within Notion? If so, you know that they don't remain as columns which can be super frustrating. In this quick video, we walk you through how to create columns and convert them to a Toggle list so you can...
Introducing “Notion for Academics”
I'll admit it: I'm a productivity and digital organizing geek. I've used many tools over the years to organize my personal and professional tasks and projects. Sometimes referred to as a Tech Stack, my productivity tools of choice over the years for task, project, and...
Data Privacy and Information Literacy Assessment
Citation Michalak, R. & Rysavy, M. (2020). Data Privacy and Information Literacy Assessment. Against the Grain. 32(1), (peer-reviewed column). Abstract Collecting Personal Identifiable Information (PII), in the context of services and programs academic libraries...