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Hellooo, Homeschoolers...How do you use Notebook?by kenhuth - 09:13PM, Mar 15, 2004 |
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I just saw this forum and as I'm testing out CP Notebook for my business life, I'd love to hear how it could work for our HS life.
How do you guys use your notebook for school stuff? I can imagine it makes a great 'portfolio' for student work. Also, I'd love to see how a parent uses it to track things... it could consolidate a bunch of my wife's lists and spreadsheets, etc. We are Christian Homeschoolers in the Western NY area, btw, with 2 kids in elementary grades. cheers, Ken HuthPhoto.com Portfolio, Photoshop & Digital Photo tips |
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Well, I guess I'm answering my own question. We have been using CPNotebook and love it for school things (although my wife still likes real paper). I find it's a great way to clip web research, photos, etc into one place. Before,we'd meander through a list of web links we'd previewed on a topic... now I can clip what I like from a site to NB, edit it and really present things in a much tighter way to the kids. For example, my brother is in China now and just visited the Terra Cotta Army dig. I was able to put his descriptive e-mail, and the best sections (using the highlighter and editing) from about 6 web sites I visited, along with the best photos in media frames (just because I like how cool they look floating and tilted! I'm a photographer after all...) Anyone else doing cool things? Maybe created a good IHIP template or weekly task checklist in Notebook? cheers, Ken
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Hi everyone, I'm trying out NoteBook for 30 days, but I just sent this around our local homeschool newslist: "NoteBook allows kids/parents to create notebooks for particular projects, themes, classes, etc., and either print them out, export to a word processor, or publish them on the web. Not only do notebooks contain text that you type or paste into them, but you can automatically copy text, images or web pages very easily from the Internet; and you can insert images, movies, audio, and other files from your hard drive; or do many other creative things. Searching is fast and flexible. Re-organizing, or adding new "tab dividers" is a breeze. Perfect for creating a story book, or a project, a year book or a portfolio -- the Mac version of anything you might think of doing with a physical three-ring binder. Other uses include organizing lesson plans, organizing research (for older students), creating a year book, printing out a copy of a child's work in a particular topic to enjoy as a physical notebook, or to give away to grandparents to show what's going on in school this year. :-) I wish I would have heard about NoteBook sooner, but now I think we'll all find it useful this year. (CircusPonies offers a family pack discount for multiple copies.)" We'll see if we end up using it for these things this year. I'd love to hear more from others who find NoteBook useful for homeschooling! PEACE Kerry
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Ken, Small world. I have family in Williamson. My grandfather, Clayton Bissell, was a barber in Sodus and Williamson. My aunt now lives closer to Rochester, but lived on Richardson Rd. for years. The De May family still grows apples and cherries on the family farms there. We live in Georgia, so represent the fruit that fell further from the tree. We homeschool our two high school students, and plan on using Notebook starting this summer. We haven't worked out the approach yet, but are looking forward to using it as an element of a "toolset" that will provide our student with the stuff that they need to explore our world and test ideas. I'll check back here periodically to share "best practices" with the group.
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 Wow- with 472 replies to this forum on Homeschooling alone- you would think we could see more examples of how we are all using NB! I have mine just about ready for this year. I am LOVING it! Really for me it's the posting to the web I am still working on. But I am pretty much ready to go on the homefront. My daughter is a window user; all her lessons are in the nb- so easy to save the weeks as rtf and then I actually print as pdf and email to her on Monday. It looks so nice! She downloads and is on her way! I have everything in this Nb. for the year. I will post in a few days when some cliches are fixed. This is an awesome tool for Homeschoolers. I wish more would post!!Here's to another great year of Homeschooling! My 7th! Cheers! Noelle 
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Wow, I haven't been following the forum all summer and I tune in and Heya! I've been using Notebook for awhile now. Last year we integrated it loosly into our homeschool setup--but mainly as an information gatherer. I would go on the web and preview information we needed and clip it to the notebook for the kids to view later. I then would organize the info into a "story" with pictures, sound, expanded reading for the older kids, etc. A lot of work, but I didn't have to do it all at once--just surf and clip--usually just before school. I could then organize the information into a lesson based on something in the day. I would love to hear how others are using Notebook in their homeschool routine. I really want to start expanding how we use it.
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 We begin school in the morning! I am using NB for ALL my record keeping. It will be my base for everything we do this year. It will be recorded in there. I am so excited- just saved her first weeks lessons plans to rtf then to pdf and emailed them to her for her to print in the morning. [my daughter- who is on a PC in the home classroom] I have it up on the web as well. So she can look ahead thru her link on her computer. This is so simple and has actually been so fun to put together. Can't wait to finish entering info. Here is a link to it on the web. I had it with a sidebar - but my daughter likes to see the tabs from the NB- so that's how it is! How fun! All have a great year!! Heres the link- http://homepage.mac.com/noellemena/HSIsis6th/index.html Noelle
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