Prepping for the New School Year

This year I have a new list of things I'm going to try and implement.  I also have a list of things I'm going to try and avoid!

Implement:

1. Touch things 1 time and deal with them adequately!

2. Improve my filing system for hard copies of important documents.

3. Weed through the ridiculous amount of books and part with some of them regardless of my emotional attachment!

4. Stop procrastinating on tasks I hate - by doing them first!

5. Be willing to give up a system, book, project, software, method, etc. that is not working for me before wasting vast amounts of time!

Avoid:

1. Making careless mistakes by rushing too much - ok....baby steps here - be more careful!

2. Use my time more wisely by using GTD strategies that work and simply life.

3. The phone....   Need I say more?

4. The television - at least during the day!

5. People who frustrate me or waste my time on things that don't really matter.

Well, it all sounds great.  The question is.....  Will I do it?  I'm definitely going to try!

How to Make It All Work Together

This year I've come across so many tools that will make teaching easier, but now I have to whittle it down to best choices.  This is the struggle.  Which tools will help the most, with the smallest learning curve for the students and parents?

I think the ones I will use the most this year are:

Twitter (a great way to get info to a group quickly)

Jott (a way to remind myself anywhere of something I'm likely to forget!)

Skitch (a great way to mark graphics up on anything quickly)

Evernote (for organizing notes with searchable text)

Since I have a website already, I don't need drop.io as much, but I think I'll still have some use for it