Week 15 Tech Tip: Canvas Notifications

I had already set up my Canvas notifications. I don't like the idea of missing any assignments, especially since I'm enrolled in this online class. I get fairly paranoid about it. So I have my canvas notifications set up to send me a daily update about what's been going on in my canvas account, as well as to notify me anytime anything gets posted anywhere in my classes. I get emails anytime grades are posted, files are uploaded, announcements are shared, etc. It gets annoying at times because I do get a lot of emails. However, I'd much rather receive too many annoying emails than to accidentally miss something big!

Week 14 Tech Tip: Editing Pins

Caption: Meteora Monastaries. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meteora_2_evlahos.jpg.
Tech tip: For this week's tech tip, I learned how to edit a pin on pinterest. This was particularly helpful because I'm an avid user of pinterest but I never edit any of the captions, I just repin them as is. I don't use pinterest for school, I use it to keep all of my interests in one place. I edited a particular pin on my travel board. I love traveling and it's useful to update the pins with more about the places that I'm interested in traveling to so I can look at the pictures and see exactly where they are.

Google Timer Tech Tip

Today for my tech tip, I learned how to create a timer using google. I rarely use timers now, though I see how they could be incredibly useful and handy. Sometimes, I tell myself I'll devote x amount of time to hardcore studying and then I'll give myself x amount of time as a break. This would be a great way to do this without watching the clock constantly and causing myself to focus on the clock instead of my work. I also think that this could be useful for spending too much time on one problem. Often in my homework assignments, I'll have a long list of problems to solve and I'll tell myself that I'll work for x amount of time on a problem before I'll move onto the next one if I haven't figured it out yet. This would be a great way to ensure that I don't spend too much time trying to figure out one problem to no avail.