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Lists

Here’s a comprehensive list of lists useful in prioritizing your day:

43 Things
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. So the next time someone asks you, “what do you do?” you can answer with confidence, “I am doing 43 things!”.

Gmail Tasks
Just click and type to add new tasks, set due dates or add notes, and (most satisfyingly) check them off as you’re done. Your task list stays up to date no matter how you access it. It’s a simple list that’s with you everywhere you go.

HiTask $$
HiTask was conceived as a friendly and easy-to-use task management system that anyone can start using right away. It is designed to satisfy both followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology and anyone who just needs a quick and easy tool to manage their everyday tasks.

Joe’s Goals
Joe’s Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use the simple single page interface to setup daily goals and track them with just a click. Watch your daily score to gauge your success and use negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome bad habits that finally need to get the boot. Share your success with your friends and family or post your personal score badge to your blog or MySpace page. Add as many Goals as you want and update them all from a single interface.

Now Do This
How do you organize your day? A calendar requires you to predict the unpredictable. A Todo list can overwhelm you with data. I wanted a ‘boss’ to tell me what to do. Enjoy this free tool.

Remember the Milk
Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Remember The Milk makes managing tasks an enjoyable experience.

Ta-da List
Ta-da List is the web’s easiest to-do list tool. Make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn’t be simpler. Ta-da List works in the most popular web browsers (IE 6/7, Firefox 2, and Safari 2) on the Mac, PC, and the iPhone.

Todoist
Todoist is a popular online task manager that’s useful, fast and easy to use. It strives to make you more productive and organized.
The Zen of Todoist
Now is better than later.
Later is better than never.
Organized is better than messy.
Big things are composed by smaller things.
Smaller things are done by action.
Think like a person of action.
Act like a person of thought.
The beginning is half of every action.
The longest journey starts with the first step.
Everything should be made as simple as possible.
But not simpler.
Celebrate any progress.
Don’t wait to get perfect.
Deadlines and stress are a part of life.

Toodledo
An easy to use, online to-do list. Get organized, stay motivated, and be more productive.

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Questioning Techniques for Teachers

A “Try-to” List for Questioning
* Try to pause after asking a question.
* Try to avoid frequent questions which require only a yes or no answer.
* Try to avoid answering my own questions.
* Try to follow up student responses with the question “why?”
* Try to limit the use of questions which rely almost completely on memory.
* Try to avoid directing a question to a student for disciplinary reasons.
* Try to avoid repeating a student’s answer. Repeating the answer allows students to listen only to “teacher talk” and not to “student talk.”
* Try to follow up a student’s response by fielding it to the class or to another student for a reaction.
* Try to insist on attentiveness during question periods.
* Try to avoid giveaway facial expressions to student responses.
* Try to make it easy for students to ask a question at any time.
* Try to avoid asking questions that contain the answer.
* Try never to call on a particular student before asking the question.
* Also try not to call on a particular student immediately after asking a question.
* Try to ask questions that are open-ended.
* Try not to label the degree of difficulty of a question.
* Try to leave an occasional question unanswered at the end of the period.
* Try to replace lectures with a set of appropriate questions.
* Try to avoid asking for verbal group responses.
* Try to keep students actively involved in the learning process.

Questions I seldom ask:
* How many of you understood that?
* Everybody see that?
* You want me to go over that again?
* Did I go too fast for you?
* This is a right triangle, isn’t it?
* Right?
* Do you have any questions?

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