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Tips for Protecting Your Research Time 08-24-2022

Tips for Protecting Your Research Time: Collaborate with colleagues and set group deadlines for completing work. Develop a daily writing habit. Exercise and keep reasonable work hours to boost creativity. Incorporate grant submission and conference presentation deadlines into your calendar to turn internally imposed deadlines into externally imposed ones. Be strategic about how you divide your time across research, teaching, service, and mentoring. Protect your research time by making your commitments public and visible. Create accountability mechanisms so that research-related tasks become as pressing as those related to service and teaching. Work from home to create clear boundaries between research time and other kinds of work. Escape through structured writing retreats.  原文 Making Time for Research      Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist  "One common recommendation is for faculty members to block off research time each week, not allowing other forms of work t...

Chat with Cecil Chua (Aug 22 2022)

Cecil was doing office hours when I stopped by his office. I greeted him and started the chat.  Cecil's view on teaching He believed that the teaching load should be based on the number of enrollment rather than the number of courses . Cecil said that the BIT department at S&T has a particular situation.  He told me that teaching classes with 50-plus students are nothing compared to other places. He used to teach 150 undergraduate students at the University of Oakland.  Cecil Sharing Teaching Resources and Philosophy Cecil teaches every course with full hands-on: IoT and Networking courses Cecil suggested using Cisco Packet Tracer -- https://skillsforall.com/topics/cisco-packet-tracer?utm_source=netacad.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=packet-tracer&userlogin=0 This can be only for demonstration  Cecil told me to feel free to use his teaching exercises for my courses, which are available on:  https://cecilchua.online/ I can use it ...