Tools – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Let’s avoid digital stupidity

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

Digital devices can help us immensely, but they shouldn't replace our intelligence and skills.
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Fuck Motivation, make behavior easier

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

An observation about students designing apps — they seem to be preoccupied with motivation, instead of making things easier.
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Apple is not your friend

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

I like Apple, but I don't trust it. Some of the behavior of the iOS serves Apple much more than their users.

Image: Meme.
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When it comes to outliners (and other tools), be tool agnostic

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

Tools are great, but do not tie yourself to a specific tool.
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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23 | Reading time: 1 minute

It's impressive what you can do with the right tools, well, with R. ;-)
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Recommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

2021-01-31 | Reading time: 1 minute

Something that many computer science students lack — command of the basic tools. This MIT course teaches the basics.
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Downloading Coursera Materials

2021-01-31 | Reading time: 4 minutes

If you like to watch videos offline and don't want to download each course video manually, this process might work.
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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Recording Webbrowser Audio/Video on a Mac

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

A short guide on how to record web-browser audio/video on the Mac.
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