NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts from the last week:

College not just about academics

The Tartan Online: "Last week, the editorial board of The Tartan wrote a response to a USA Today article concerning a student’s first two years at an American university. The USA Today article reports that 45 percent of students involved in the study it referenced showed no significant gains in learning during their first two years of college and also that students spend less time studying than they did a few decades ago. The Tartan responded that these first two years should be used as building blocks for later study and that, “if the majority of the nation’s college students are unable to get anything out of their first two years, perhaps a re-evaluation of the way students structure their time is necessary.”

Posted by David at 1/31/2011 01:44:00 PM <-- Comments here

'Spider-Man' keeps multiple balls in the air

Variety: "It's well-established that Broadway tuner 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' will have obliterated the record for total preview performances by the time the musical is scheduled to open, March 15, after a series of delays. Creatives have repeatedly assured theatergoers that work is being done to hone the show in advance of opening while making sure that record doesn't grow.

Posted by David at 1/30/2011 08:24:00 PM <-- Comments here

Plays & Reality TV

thestar.com: "Jersey Shore, live on stage? Not quite. Or at least not yet. Movies and television routinely blur the line between fantasy and reality. But innovative stage companies are only beginning to explore the possibilities of what might loosely be dubbed “reality theatre.”

Posted by Dale at 1/29/2011 02:48:00 AM <-- Comments here

Kill Your To-Do List

FreelanceFolder: "We’re all well acquainted with the concept of the to-do list. Whether or not we get along with them is another matter entirely.
Sometimes to-do lists just don’t cut it, and at the end of the day, the checked boxes are buried amongst all the empty ones. Well, gee, if that isn’t a morale boost, I just don’t know what is.
In this post, I’ll discuss a to-do list alternative–The Single Day Schedule. I’ll explain how freelancers can use this better system to become more productive.

Posted by David at 1/28/2011 03:13:00 PM <-- Comments here

The Pomodoro Technique:

Stepcase Lifehack: "If you spend any time at all researching life hacks, you’ve probably heard of the famous Pomodoro Technique. Created in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, the Pomodoro Technique is one of the more popular time management life hacks used today. But this method isn’t for everyone, and for every person who is a passionate adherent of the system, there is another person who is critical of the results.

Posted by David at 1/31/2011 01:40:00 PM <-- Comments here

The Bigelow Effect - Why We Care

Women and Hollywood: "Why do we care about women’s presence in the awards race? Specifically, why do we care so much about a woman getting nominated for best director? That is a great question raised in an very well-written piece by a young woman director named Lindsay on the website Canonball. One thing she asks is if we have been left out of the awards for so long, why should we as women change what we do in order to fit in?

Posted by David at 1/31/2011 01:39:00 PM <-- Comments here