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01-02-2017, 02:03 PM | #1 |
Rose Garden
Join Date: Apr 2006
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organizing information
What do you guys use to organize your plans/curriculum, etc?
We are usually pretty unschooley, so I have documenting and such down for that, but we're going to spend a bit of time being more scheduled about some subjects. I need a better way to track what I want to do, or even to inventory what I have available, etc? Is there something where I can cross reference things?
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01-02-2017, 03:38 PM | #2 |
Rose Garden
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Re: organizing information
I have one of these boxes for each subject. I primarily use them to keep Teacher's Manuals and supplementary books together. All of our current school stuff lives on a bookshelf in the living room. Games, math manipulatives, DVD's, and anything else odd-sized that doesn't fit in the bin goes directly on another shelf. Each of my kids has one of those bins as well for notebooks and papers.
I also have a couple of these file boxes. There is one hanging folder fore each week of school and an interior file for each of us. I'm a nerd, so we are color-coded. If there's something I want them to do, it goes in the file folder. Last year I got most of the year pre-planned that way. This year it didn't work out quite that way and I stuff folders as we go, primarily on the weekend. Some weeks are empty.
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01-02-2017, 04:40 PM | #3 | |
Rose Garden
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Re: organizing information
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My organizing heart loves both of the things you linked
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01-02-2017, 04:42 PM | #4 |
Rose Trellis
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Re: organizing information
Following. I'm similar to you and stated a new system end last year. Happy with how we started now it's summer holiday. But don't want to leave it too long.
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01-03-2017, 07:38 AM | #5 |
Rose Garden
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Re: organizing information
I have one per subject with different age stuff in it. (Most are Mediums, Writing is a Large.) The Math box has 2 Math-U-See manuals, 2 videos, a couple Life of Freds and the Beast Academy answer pack. My History box has SOTW plus a History encyclopedia, a dozen or so other books on the same time period, and some activities for the little kids.
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01-08-2017, 01:50 PM | #6 |
Rose Trellis
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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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