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English 808: Technology & Literacy Unit 3—Managing Time, Stress, & Your Life

Unit 3 Required Materials

Due Week 4 (Sep. 16): Required Readings and Materials on Managing Time, Stress, & Your Life

Begin Class Part 1 @ 5:00 p.m.

Unit 3 Class Activities

Part 1. Lecture (10 minutes)

  • Project Overload
    • project-overload
    • Article: “Information Overload Is Crushing You: Here Are 11 Secrets That Will Help” by Andrew McDermott (2017, Oct. 30)
      • “There’s a silent epidemic sweeping through your organization. It’s spread from one person to another. This infection is dangerous, not because it can’t be cured, but because most of the time we’re powerless to stop it. I’m talking about information overload.
      • When most people hear the words ‘infection’ and ‘information overload’ together they usually discount the information. They approach information overload like it’s a benign problem.
      • As if it’s an easy fix.
      • Every day, information overload threatens to ruin your career.
      • Miss a critical piece of information and your organization could be hurt or affected negatively. Fail to share the information your co-workers need and your entire team may suffer. Fail to keep up with the demand and you may miss something critical.
      • We’re drowning in information.”
      • A study of managers from the United States, England, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia, revealed many problematic health impacts of information overload:
        • “33 percent felt they were suffering from poor health due to information overload.
        • 66 percent reported tension with their co-workers and management as well as reduced job satisfaction.
        • 62 percent admitted their social and professional relationships were suffering”

Part 2: Time & Stress Management (60 minutes)

  • PowerPoint Presentation (60 minutes)

Part 3. Break (10 minutes)

End Class Part 1 @ 7:00 p.m.

Begin Class Part 2 @ 7:00 p.m.

Part 4: GTD (10 minutes)

Part 5: Capture Your Tasks (15 minutes)

Part 6: Small Group Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Discuss Capturing Your Tasks

Part 7: Full Class Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Discuss Capturing Your Tasks

Part 8: Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero (10 minutes)

  • PROCESS Email
    • Email management and Inbox Zero - OptimWise
  • Touch an Email Only Once!
    • One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email

Part 9: Process Some of Your Emails (10 minutes)

Part 10: Small Group Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Discuss Capturing Your Tasks

Part 11: Full Class Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Discuss Capturing Your Tasks

Part 12: Small Group Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Technology has increased our workload
  • Technology has created the need for managing our productivity
  • How can we help prepare students for life in a world of project overload?

Part 13: Full Class Discussion (10 minutes)

  • Final Thoughts on Managing Stress, Time, and & Your Life

Part 14: Assignments Review & Class Wrap-up (5 minutes)

  • Review Assignments listed below

Assignments

Due Week 5 (Sep. 23): Required Readings and Materials on Creating a Professional Academic Website