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I write (mainly) about education, technology and productivity. Here are my most popular posts from each category (last updated January 2012).

Education

  1. The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
  2. Why (educational) technology?
  3. What if….?
  4. Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
  5. Commoditising learning through the #flippedclassroom (or, the difference between education and training)

Technology

  1. How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
  2. My Computing History
  3. 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
  4. Write lots? Buy this.
  5. The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you’ve got your presentation slides.

Productivity

  1. ‘Flow’ and the waste of free time
  2. 3 things common to most successful people
  3. Surviving to thriving: 10 steps to ensure you remain productive after a rough night.
  4. 7 things the Bible taught me about productivity.
  5. 5 ways Google Calendar is turning into my ultimate productivity system.

I’ve written some eBooks – #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity (2010), #onfire: ignite your productivity (2010), and #getthatjob: an educator’s guide to finding, applying, and interviewing for a teaching-related job (2010). These can all be found at dougbelshaw.com/ebooks

Everything Else

  1. The Digital Native/Immigrant dichotomy.
  2. Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
  3. Why we don’t celebrate Hallowe’en in our house
  4. A (temporary) farewell to a hero.
  5. Beyond Creative Commons: uncopyright.
  6. Media Literacy: the biggest enemy of UK ‘digital literacy’ initiatives?
  7. How I organize my Ed.D. thesis
  8. How to design the ultimate presentation.
  9. A Week of Divesting: an introduction
  10. Leadership by Design.

Worked your way through those? Congratulations! You’re now qualified to read my doctoral thesis, available online (and CC0-licensed like this blog) at neverendingthesis.com!