![]() On my calendar, for example, I have a lot of webinars I host, so that is one category I color code. Take a look at your current digital calendar and see if there are three or four common themes or categories of events. You might have a few goals that come out of your spring cleaning, including one around your calendar. I genuinely believe that you can commit to starting something new any time of year. Make a color-coding calendar commitmentĪlthough I did choose “one word” for the year, I’m typically not a big new year’s resolution person. If there are labels or folders you haven’t used in a year, delete or combine them into a large folder.ĭo you have a new course you’re taking? Or a new role you’ve taken on? If you realize that there is a missing category, create a label to organize correspondence you think might increase in the future. In the same way you might go through your closet and make a pile of clothes you don’t wear anymore, pause to take a look at your email labels. If not, set a reminder on your calendar to revisit this task. Suppose you feel like you want to keep going when the timer goes off, awesome. ![]() If you start feeling overwhelmed by this task, set a timer for 10 minutes so you have a stop time. So head over to your Google Drive or OneDrive or wherever your files live and search by keyword for “Untitled.” Then, either delete these documents or give them a name and drag them to a folder. In Google Drive, these documents are named “Untitled” by default. Search for “Untitled”ĭo you make lots of documents on the fly? Whether you are demoing a strategy for students or showing off a quick tip to your colleagues, you might have a lot of documents that aren’t serving a purpose anymore. I talk a bit more about this strategy in Episode 80 of the Easy EdTech Podcast, 3 Ways Coaches Can Support Teachers. Next time you get one of these kinds of emails, head straight to this document and copy and paste the response to their question. This way, you can send them to (almost) anyone who asks the same type of question. Then clean up the emails you frequently use. Are there patterns in your responses? For example, do you keep writing the same email to answer the same questions to different people? If you notice a pattern in your responses, open up a document and copy and paste your most common email responses. Quickly skim the last few dozen emails you’ve sent. Open up your email and head to the Sent folder. At the same time, you’ll clean out extra photos on your phone. This digital scrapbook can help you chronicle your school year and could even be used as a professional artifact. ![]() Then, as you move them off your phone, delete them (and any extras you don’t use). Open up your photo app, and choose just the best photos to add to your digital scrapbook. Before you start deleting, set up a slide deck to act as a digital scrapbook for the year. Instead of keeping them all on your phone, carve out 30 minutes for one big photo clean-up. Is your phone full of photos like mine? You might have lots of photos from special school events or classroom moments. Grab just the best photos (and make a slide deck scrapbook) These are ready for you to customize for the digital spaces you inhabit, your day-to-day routines, and your favorite technology tools. I have seven spring cleaning tips for every educator in today’s blog post. One of my goals for this year is to take my digital organization to the next level. So with spring cleaning on the mind, I thought it would be fun to share a few of my favorite spring cleaning tips. Although your physical spaces might be neat and tidy, how do your digital spaces measure up? If you follow my Easy EdTech Podcast, you know that my one word for this year is optimize.
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