Game Design – Week 10 – GTD – Getting Things Done – Part 2
Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day. – from LifeHacker.com
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World
SUMMARY
- schoolwork, zooms, and video games
PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)
- java
PlayCanvas – Javascript
- I finished on module 2 quiz
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’
- I learned that your brain cant hold this information so its important to make a list and sort it. it also relives stress
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
- Set a timer
- Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’
- Rewatch David explain ‘Maps’ from 19:57 to 21:16 of the video
Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed
- Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below
GTD-based Trusted System
- Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
- A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done
- Trello.com with a – GTD Template
- We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
- You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
- You might want to start now
- We start using Trello in the second semester
- Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
- You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
- We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
- Your phone
- Paper and pen or pencil
- Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
- Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs
- I use my phone for this
OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)
- I thought only about my abundance of assignments including his one than i did them all
OPTIONAL EXERCISE
- Read Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen
STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 15 minutes
- Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
- “Very simple folks! …
- Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
- Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
- Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
- And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
- You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
- And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
- It’s that simple…”
- “Very simple folks! …
- ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
- I learned about GTD and how to organize my assignments
WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION
- Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
- Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
- DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE