Comments on: How I Work: Coffee Shops /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/ less helpful Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:01:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: A tribute to Dan Meyer. | dougbelshaw.com/blog /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-254175 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:01:47 +0000 /?p=57#comment-254175 […] How I Work: Coffee Shops […]

]]> By: dkzody /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-131813 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:38:05 +0000 /?p=57#comment-131813 Coffee Cat–so now I know how you made the Mount Hermon connect.

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Second Day /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-17657 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:27:47 +0000 /?p=57#comment-17657 […] the down side, the fact that I’m here at this dumb coffee shop and have been every day so far, makes me feel like I violated the terms of a contract I made with […]

]]> By: Smurf /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-7670 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:59:09 +0000 /?p=57#comment-7670 Gator, you should:

a.) create a Myspace

and/or

b.) log in to the secret Myspace that you probably have

and

c.) Join my group, “I live at Coffee Cat” (which is recently a lie… it has been too long)

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Two Years /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-629 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:16:07 +0000 /?p=57#comment-629 […] So I bought gift cards from a local coffee shop, designed a personal face for each, uploaded them to Longs for photo printing, pasted them to the front of the cards with aerosolized adhesive, cut the edges, and gave them to three secretaries and the custodian in charge of my room. […]

]]> By: Todd /2007/how-i-work-coffee-shops/#comment-48 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:12:51 +0000 /?p=57#comment-48 I did something similar today and tend to do so on Sundays. I drive up to a local open space preserve and grade in my car. Sometimes I listen to NPR, sometimes I listen to nothing. I always get more work done that way. Today, I graded 40 papers. The previous 15 papers? You guessed it, graded at a coffee shop earlier in the morning on my way up to the open space preserve.

I do it so I’m not distracted, so that I’m practically forced to do nothing but grade. But the decontamination idea holds, too. I try to do the same thing during the week, staying in my classroom until 6 or 7 sometimes because when I go home, I want to go home, not just change the background I’m grading in.

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