Hello! It's Diane, the nursing geek, and I am here today to give a bit of an
overview of my academic bullet journal. This is actually take two. - I got all the
way to uploading a version of this to YouTube last week, and when I went to
edit my captions, I discovered that I had managed to do something completely
horrible to the sound. I couldn't even figure out what I was saying. So lesson
learned there: whatever I did, don't do it again. And it had gotten kind of long anyway.
so redoing. You'll notice I'm not using
the desk view this time. The last one that I did using desk view ... I mean it was
watchable, I think, but it needs a lot of improvement. I probably need different
equipment. So today it's gonna be very much just an overview and me holding up
my academic bullet journal. So what does it mean to have an academic bullet journal ?
Well, that probably depends on whether you're a student or a teacher.
I will link below several bullet journalists from kind of each category,
because I follow a couple of bullet journal bloggers who do student-centric
academic spreads and things, one who I think is teach... she's teaching at
what we would call the secondary level, although she's in another country so I
don't think they use that terminology, and one who is in post-secondary ed.
So, there's all sorts of ways you can do bullet journaling to do with ac-
academics. What you want to keep track of if you're a student versus what you
want to keep track of if you're an instructor are going to be very different things,
and how people use an academic bull journal varies widely.
I do not do any day-to-day planning in my academic bullet journal.
That I keep all in my personal bullet journal, because having just my my day to
day "to do" all in one place is an important ingredient in maintaining my
mental health. And this for me is more about ... it's really more trackers
than anything else. Trackers and collections of information. Because when
you are working in post-secondary education - at least here in the States
and I presume in whatever form this is done elsewhere, it's probably fairly
universal - that you need to document your teaching, you need to document your
scholarship, and you need to document your service. And I think I recall
hearing another blogger use a different term for the service piece in another
country, and I don't remember what that is but she'll be links below:
Ellie Mackin Roberts. So if you're looking for the UK perspective on that you will find it from her.
But here, those are the three components of an academic job:
teaching, scholarship, service. And when you come up on certain landmark reviews you have to
be able to document what you have done. And I have seen people rip their hair
out in the midst of preparing for their year 3 eval, and I don't want to be that
person. I would rather have everything organized already so ... done a number of
things in here. I'm just going to do a quick overview and then maybe it'll
break down a couple of the spreads separately so that this doesn't turn
into something way too long. I would like to keep it under ten minutes. I did
go for the A4 size partly just because that feels more like a ledger-type size
to me, and that's how I'm viewing it, but also because of some of the things that
I'm tracking in it. No, there is no particular need to draw out the entire
academic year's calendar. Uh, this was me just trying to actually do *something*
so that I would stop treating this like it was sacrosanct and couldn't be touched.
I was photocopying blank pages and using pencil even on the photocopied
pages to map out spreads and then I decided, "This is ridiculous.
I need to just start using it." And so I did. I figured get at least something in
there and then it won't feel quite like I can't can't touch it without it being
perfect. That's sort of a workflow map. Um [clears throat] People are forever asking you to get
involved in different projects, and I have a distinct tendency to say, "Yes, sure,
that sounds wonderful." I'm learning to say, "That sounds
incredibly interesting. I wish I had the time." And one of the ways for me to do
that is to look and see okay just exactly how chaotic is my schedule
during the time that this thing I'm being asked to do would take place.
I also have a time log so for those three things I just said: teaching,
scholarship, service. This is not about ... It's not even really about time in the
sense that you would keep a time sheet. I don't care what hours were used for any
of these but I do want to have some idea of the proportion of time I'm spending
between each of those things and admin the stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else,
basically. So that's what I've got here.
Teaching summary. You do need to be able to write up a summary of your teaching,
and that includes some key comments from student evals and your planned response
to them. For example, if someone says, "You know, I really didn't understand anything
about the point to this assignment," well then, that tells me I need to change how
the assignment is presented so that people understand why they're doing it.
It's certainly not just to give them more to do and me more to grade. No.
There is an objective of some kind, and if that's not clear, I'm going to work on
making it clearer, and I'm gonna document that that's what I'm doing. so that I can
include that in my long narrative teaching summary later on.
Professional development: just keeping track of any workshops seminars that I
attend, largely on campus so far. As I am working on planning our Healthcare in
Iceland program, this year, I figured I could use some spreads to keep track of
all of that.
Obviously I covered over people's contact information. These two spreads I
know exactly who I can credit them to, because I actually wrote it down for
myself. Both of these I copied almost exactly
from Ellie Mackin Roberts and the video that I copied these from is the one I
will link below. One is a professional reading log, so I can keep track of what
articles I've read and any collections that they may relate to. For example, if I
end up deciding to just write a summary page of articles than that I would link
back to there just so I can keep track of what I've read. I'm sure even if
you're ... whether you're a student or an instructor you've run across the "Oh
wow, that sounds like a really great article." You read through it. "This looks a
little familiar." You get to the end, "Yeah, I've read this before." Trying to avoid that.
Author's stats tracker: I'm trying to make sure that I am listening to diverse
voices in my field. Um, I think I'm going to need to tweak this a little bit so it
makes ... so that it fits better the type of reading and the type of information that
I want to capture or try to capture.
Just more attempts at project trackers of different kinds.
And a rather different than you've probably seen in any bullet journal
video YouTube tracker. Because as I've mentioned, the main reason the main
objective I have in doing these videos right now is to improve my video skills.
I am teaching an online course. I expect to be teaching more online courses and ...
The videos that I have right now, um, they're serviceable, but they're pretty
basic, and I would like to improve my skills. So I'm keeping track of ... not how
many views or any of that type of thing. I'm keeping track of what new skill did
I attempt to use and how did it go. So desk view needs improvement, and really,
first first try on the academic bullet journal flip through ... that needs an F,
because that was just complete ... it couldn't even be used. So that's just my
quickie overview. I will probably do other like 10-minute-ish videos down the
line that break down some of these. hopefully once I have obtained the
necessary equipment to do a decent desk view, because that is just easier to
follow and it's what people are used to, looking at bullet journals in that format.
Boy, was that a convoluted sentence. Anyway, that's it for now. There are probably
going to be two videos going up this week because of the fact that this one
was really last week's video. so I will see you probably in another couple of
days. Bye!
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