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   suzukimom
   Member

   Ok - I think I'm pretty good at the organizer, and have come up with ways to do various things..... but I need suggestions.   I have come up with this type of problem before - and haven't come up with something that will work yet....

   I am using a new resource - called "Drawing Textbook" by Bruce McIntyre.  In it, there are 37 lessons, with 6 activities in each lesson.   So far - it sounds straight forward - right?

   Here is the problem....  generally you re-do activities over and over.   So, our first time doing it, we would do lesson 1 with all 6 activities.  I would then look at what the kids did, and decide how they did.  So, they might do well on activities 2 and 3, but need more work on 1, 4, 5, and 6.  So our next time, they would do activities 1, 4, 5, and 6 - and activities 1 and 2 in the next lesson.  This would vary - some things might be done for several lessons.  The book suggests that a first grade student might only get through 5 lessons in a year.   Basically, everything can be mixed up, and done several times.  I would like something that would help me keep track of where we are - yet be flexible and let me indicate what was worked on (multiple things...)

    

   Suggestions?

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   TailorMade
   Member

   I use this book, but not the CMO. I just keep a bookmark in it to remind me where we are and use little sticky notes to mark needs more work, etc. Red needs most, yellow almost finished, green next new lesson.

   Low tech, sorry,

   Becca<><

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   Doug Smith
   SCM Team

   I'd probably enter the resource with each activity as a division and label them with both the lesson number and activity number. Schedule just one lesson's worth of activities at a time. Then re-schedule the divisions for activities that need to be repeated as a "use with" or "use after" the original lesson you scheduled.

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   suzukimom
   Member

   Hi Doug... thanks for the help.   I'm still trying to picture the suggestion here.  I can understand the divisions....

   division type: activity

   L1A1 - simple box

   L1A2 -[whatever]

   etc....

   You are suggesting doing the schedule process each time we have do drawing?     

   Also - each lesson has 6 activities... which are done at one time.  But I would only be able to see the first 4 on the daily plan, even opening it up to show upcoming assignments.... so how would I work this?

   Thanks for any suggestions....  I'm usually great at figuring out how to do things, but this one has me confused!

   Posted 10 months ago # Report Post
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   Doug Smith
   SCM Team

   I may not have understood the details enough. I was mostly tyring to think of a way that you could schedule each activity in a way that you could easily reschedule them. Although you can't see all of them in the daily plan at once, you would see more as they are completed. But that might now work depending on how many you have to do and in what order before doing others. 

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   Rebekahy
   Member

   What if you ONLY schedule the lessons and then just clicked worked on.  You can use the notes section for which activities were completed well the first time and which needed review - then you're not having to schedule a bunch of stuff.  You'll just be working on a lesson for a longer length of time.

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   suzukimom
   Member

   The problem I can see with that, is I need to do a mixture of lessons....

   So first day, we would do Lesson 1, Activities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6....

   next day - we might need to do Lesson 1, Activities 1, 4, 5, 6 and Lesson 2, Activities 1,2   (they did ok with L1 activities 2,3)

   next day - we might need to do Lesson 1, Activities 4, 6; Lesson 2, Activities 1, 3, 4, 5  (they need more work on L1 activities 4 and 6; did ok with Lesson 1 Activity 2, but not 1, and then the rest are new....)

   I'm thinking I may need to keep track more on paper, and just mark things off when they are done quite well.....

   Actually - the rescheduling might be ok, except the only being able to see 4 activities instead of 6... sigh.

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   Rebekahy
   Member

   Perhaps you could schedule each lesson as a resource with NO chapters/divisions and then just click worked on until it's entirely done?

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   Sonya Shafer
   SCM Team

   Or if you want to be really detailed, enter each Lesson and Activity as a separate resource: Lesson 1, Activity 1; Lesson 1, Activity 2. Schedule them all to show up on your drawing days and click Worked On and Finished as you bring each one into and out of play. You could close the resource you don't want to use on those days. 

   The main downside to this idea is that you would have a LOT of resources listed under Drawing.

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    suzukimom
    Member

    Hm.... as I have fun going through my 290 added resources (ok, yes, I counted) - I'm not sure that it is a great idea to add 222 more just for the one drawing book....

     

    I might be able to do something with the rescheduling thing - or may just have to keep track manually....

    I will be the first to admit, it is an unusual type of resource...

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