Re: organizing information
I have my bookshelves organized by subject, and generally put any curriculum-ish stuff related to that subject on the shelf with teh books, to keep it all together.
For .pdfs I save them to Evernote, tagged with the subject and, if there's a specific time I want to remember to use it, I'll tag it with that too (so if I wanted to do a study on birds this month, to go along with the great backyard bird count, and I had a bird lapbook that might go with it, I'd tag it 2017.01 and then at the beginning of each month, I go through everything tagged for that month and add it to my calendar if I'm going to use it, or re-tag it (if, i decided not to do the bird thing this year, but probably will some year, I'd retag it 2018.01 so I could remember again next year).
For the next month or so, I have "lesson plans" in One Note (I used Evernote for both until Evernote switched to not allowing multiple devices and I want my lesson plans available on my laptop, tablet AND phone, so now I use OneNote for some stuff). I set up a grid for each week, days of the week across the top, "subjects" down the side, and then I include links, lib books, etc that, in a perfect world, we'd do that week. We rarely, if ever do everything, but it at least means I get the library books we (might) need, and such. So, when I go through and the Evernote "tags", I'd note in the lesson plans which I want to use. Then each weekend, I go through, the things we did from that lesson plan, I record in the record-keeping spreadsheet, things we didn't do, but might do this coming week, I just copy onto the new week's page. Things we're not going to do, I either delete or just leave there, not marked off.
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