After a few years of teaching, the thing that slows a lesson down is rarely the content. It's the friction: opening a slide deck in one tab, a PDF in another, a timer somewhere else, then losing the room while you alt-tab between them.
Over time I trimmed my setup to one screen. Lesson material, a whiteboard I can draw on, PDFs and media inline, a visible timer, and a simple way to hand out points when a group does something well. Prism is the workspace I ended up using for most of that, mostly because it was put together by someone who has clearly run a class and knows where the friction actually is.
None of this is about any single tool, though. The real shift was deciding that anything I have to reach for mid-lesson is a distraction, and cutting it. Fewer tabs, fewer clicks, more attention on the students in front of you.
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