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Timeline of Book of Centuries in Organizer?
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Have any of you added your BoC or timeline activities into the Organizer? Did you just add it as a special resource so that you could put it on the schedule? Any special things to consider when doing this?
I want to make sure we don’t forget to add to our timeline on a weekly basis so I thought I would add it as a resource and schedule it for a specific day of the week to keep us on track.
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I’ve done that before, yes. I scheduled BofC for every Friday so we could remember to add the week’s worth. It worked all right as a reminder, but we sometimes forgot which events and dates we were going to put in by the time Friday rolled around. Ideally, it works best as an ongoing habit to enter items as you come across them. But once a week was a stepping stone to get to that habit, and it’s better than forgetting all together.
Like Sonya, I tried the once a week, but found that most weeks we skipped it. This year, I made a custom study method, “Read, Narrate, BOC” and that is what I use for our history readings. For literature, I made specific resources like “NB Entry – The Railway Children” for each book and scheduled them for after the book was read. This means that dd will either make a notebooking page about that book or at least enter the author/book into our BOC.
We’ve only just begun our year, but I already prefer this method.
Christie
I just figured out how to create a Book of Centuries using Microsoft OneNote! Now the boys can each have their own BOC and it will be much easier to do on a regular basis. I never thought that I would prefer a book over the timeline on the wall, but this looks like a great idea! OneNote has the flexibility to put text, pictures, drawing, audio, and video anywhere on the page – free-form. Just like the binder-style BOC! And copying images from the Internet and pasting them in the BOC will be much easier than them having to wait on my to print out the images we need and prepare them for gluing on the wall timeline and then trying to do it together in the evening – when we remember. They can do it on their own and then annotate the images with dates and other comments. Way cool!
“Read, Narrate, BOC”
Works for me!
I like it too! For those of you without microsoft one note, Evernote offers a similar item for free.
I wish that I could get in the habit of using it – I just can’t seem to let go of the paper and pencil model. :sigh:
I have just recently started forcing myself to get in the habit of using the new OneNote 2010. The thing I like about it now is that I can create a notebook on my Windows Live Skydrive and access it seamlessly both at work and at home. So now I put everything in a notebook for me – excerpts of posts from places like this that that I want to remember, clips from webpages that I want to remember, links to websites along with my notes about the sites, etc. So now I am accumulating quite a few pages under Charlotte Mason with separate pages for Narration, Nature Study, Music/Art Study, Prepared Dictation, and planning/scheduling. I am really liking it now. But it does take some getting used to and working on the transition. And I have separate sections for planning our science this year. Etc.
I also love that each boy gets their own school notebook and now each get their own BOC – all online! And that way I can see their notebooks from work at the same time they are working at home. Now I can see what they are doing, make comments or help explain what I want done, all from my PC at home or work!
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