Each week, we ask a member of the College of Education grad student community to share three picks related to one of their passions.
Ben Zaleski, Master of Arts in Educational Technology student, shares 3 favorite apps:
Today it can be so easy to be glued to your phone and not be productive. However, our phones can be extremely useful at times and can help promote productivity as well! Here are some of my favorite apps that I have been using lately to help me be productive and promote creativity!
- Calm: Calm is a sleep and meditation app that has been extremely helpful for me in my life as a student. If you are having trouble sleeping because you’re overthinking your work or upcoming projects, you can use Calm to listen to some sleep stories or sounds to help you relax. Also, if you are feeling overwhelmed, you can try one of their meditation practices to help feel reenergized.
- Spotify: What’s better than listening to music while you are studying and doing work? If you have trouble focusing with music, you can always find a playlist playing “Lo-Fi Beats.” Need some inspiration? Try listening to a short podcast and see how that impacts your creativity. One of my favorite podcasts recently is the “TBOY podcast.”
- BeReal: Let’s face it: we all have fallen into endless scrolling on social media when we should be doing work. BeReal is a new social media app that can help stop endless scrolling. Typically, you only have a few friends on BeReal. Then once a day, you post a picture of what you are doing, and that is only shown until the next day when you post your next BeReal. Scrolling on here can help fill that social media craving that we all get some time, but it only lasts a few minutes since you only see content from your friends that day.
“COE in 3” spotlights the College of Education grad student community—students, faculty and staff. Read CITE student Yetunde Alabede’s picks from our last issue on the Grad Link website.