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I have been in Academia for the most part of my life and plan to continue doing so. During this time, I learned a lot about being an academic, learning and teaching as well as proficiency.

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Academia Productivity

The mindset behind academic productivity I

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2021-06-25
For a long time now, I have wondered what it actually means to be productive as an academic. I know my fair share about productivity in the world of freelance and I know my fair share of the work ethics in the academic world. They work quiet differently and I think, that we can't apply freelance or corporate productivity to university-level work.
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Academia Productivity Technology

Organise your classes with Notion!

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2021-06-04

So last time we started to organise our students with Notion in a very simple, but effective way. Today we want to go one step further and create a publicly available class website. In other words: We want to organise our classes with Notion. On it, you can put…

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Academia Productivity

Reverse Outlining

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2021-05-21

Writing papers, presentations or books is part of academic work. But usually this is not taught to us, we kind of learn by doing. Some are talents and some are not. I definitely needed a lot of time to wrap by head around writing and I still do, learning…

A coffee cup on a desk showing work to be done. Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash


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Academia Personal

Freelance as a scientist

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2021-05-14

During my time as a student, I needed to earn some money. So I did some typical student jobs, like delivering advertisement or repairing computers. I was also part of several projects at my university or other institutions, but I always wanted to work as a freelancer. Create a…

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Academia Productivity

Organise your students with Notion!

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2021-04-23

Notion is a relatively new organisation tool which offers databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars and much more. Plus: The the Personal Pro Plan is free for students and educators! So naturally, I had to try it out and am pretty intrigued. It is simple and easy to use….

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Academia

University teaching during Corona

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2021-04-02

I have been a university lecturer for about 5 years now and especially the last year was different. Although the pandemic is probably hitting the students more than the staff, university teaching during Corona is a drag. On the other side, teaching during Corona offered also advantages and the…

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Academia Personal

3 things I wish I knew when I became a university lecturer

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2021-03-12

I teach at the university since 2016 now and since then had a lot to learn. In other words, some things need practice. Suffice it to say, that it worked out and I can call myself now a university lecturer. But there are also a couple of things I…

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Academia Productivity

Productivity Method: Postpone the Problem

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2021-01-29

So today I would like to introduce a productivity method, that I use myself since I can think of. Some call it procrastination or not being focussed. I however see big potential in my method of Postponing the Problem (PtP). It is not laziness nor fear from responsibility, for…

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Academia Archaeology Productivity Technology

How I use Zotero to organise all my citations

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2020-10-12

If you’re writing academic papers or books (like this one), you need a tool to manage your citations. Academic articles need citations, which are basically sources you’ve used. These sources need to be listed at the end of (or within) each work, so that you can check if you’re…

Cover of the book "Communicating the Past in the Digital Age"


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Academia Personal

Communicating the Past in the Digital Age – New publication!

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2020-02-11

My second book is out now! After Size Matters, the new book Communicating the Past in the Digital Age is about teaching and learning archaeology using digital technology. It covers topics such as archaeogaming, learning in the museum, digital tools in the classroom and digital learning environments. It’s based…

Sebastian Hageneuer
Germany

Hi! My name is Sebastian. I am an archaeologist, a university lecturer, freelancer, guitarist, and father. You could say I am quiet busy, so I learned to manage my time and energy to build good habits and still have space for myself and my family. Sounds difficult? Read here how I do it. (Nearly) Every Friday.

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