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My new love: Google calendar lists
| Posted on March 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM |
My husband recently started having our entire family use Google Calendar. I was highly resistant because it is online, but today I became a convert.
I absolutely *love* how easy it is to move items around on the schedule and the format that it prints out in is great for my list oriented visual kids. I also like that I can list chores, schoolwork and outside activities all in one place and for repeating items I just enter it once and set it up to repeat. So easy for the kids to see what they are suppose to be doing when. My husband pointed out that I could use the calendar lists to keep a record of how many hours the kids are doing schoolwork for the few classes that we are counting Carnegie hours for. All I need to do is tuck the daily lists into each child's high school organizer and count up the hours at the end of the year. Think this, combined with One Note may be just the ticket for my middlest's high school years. Wonder if I should have my son switch completely over to this rather than use his paperbased planner for spring term.
What methods do you use to communicate daily tasks/coursework to your kids; esp. your teens?
Categories: Observations on Homeschooling, High School/Rhetoric Stage
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For school assignment lists, I still use Excel to create a simple weekly chart with their assignments listed for each day. They like being able to see their schedule for the entire week on one sheet of paper. I have also learned this year that they are really still at a stage where having something tangible - a sheet of paper printed out that they cross out completed items on with a pencil/pen - still works best for them. Several of the things we have tried using technology to keep track have not worked consistently because they either try to take advanatage of the system and change/move/delete things, or because they "forget" that the assignment detail is on their computer. So in order to prevent any issues, I print each week out on paper and it's there in black-and-white that I assigned something on a specific day and I hold them accountable for that. I know that in the future, they will be able to use Outlook for the daily schoolwork lists as well, but I have found this year that they are still very concrete-oriented kids and still need tangible activities - both for scheduling and for schooling.
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