With our new baby on the way, I've been working on ways to automate the review process this year. In the past, my boys have fallen behind in their weekly review because, frankly, mom lacked a plan.
We tried using the Online Tutorials on the C3 Website last year. However, I found them cumbersome at best. I don't like that for each week you have to go through multiple pop-up menus and then back through them again to switch subjects. I would prefer the review by week, not by subject.
So this year I bought the CD http://www.classicalconversationsbooks.com/cy3pocd.html
At first, I was disappointed that it too was only by subject, but then I realized you could open the files in Power Point and edit them. Yay!
Here's what I did to create weekly review videos for the boys.
- I opened all the subject files for the first 12 weeks and copied them into one Power Point presentation.
- Next I ordered the slides by week.
- Then I parsed this presentation into 12 individual Power Point presentation by Week.
- Next I duplicate each slide and then duplicate the whole presentation. So in essence they review each subject twice and then it repeats.
- I saved it to a video format and uploaded the video to a private YouTube channel(I do this because the TV/Computer I plan on having the boys use for viewing is a Mac and cannot play Powerpoint slides or apparently *.wmv files).
Here's what Week 1 looked like when it was done.
Its my plan to have the boys watch the videos while eating breakfast and possibly lunch. Each video is only about 10 minutes long. I'd share all the weeks I've created but apparently there's a potential copyright issue. However, once you start I think you'll find it goes pretty fast.
For timeline review, I've found two Youtube videos I'll be using. The videos contain all 20 weeks, but since this is the boys third year in CC I'm not worried about them working on them all at once and spoiling the surprise per say.
The first has zoom-ins of all the timeline pictures and pauses to allow the student to repeat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhyqZaKdW8
The second is simply a Smart Mama signing all 160 points in the timeline.
Can we subscribe to your private youtube channel?
ReplyDeleteHi Tina! This is great! It makes me wish we had unlimited download access to watch videos on the Internet!!!
ReplyDeleteBrandy, I know I have subscribed to other youtube channels. I'm waiting to hear from Tina to see if we can subscribe to hers. That would be awesome! She makes it look and sound so easy, but I tried it and I think I may have to have her walk me through it!!!!
ReplyDeleteRegarding "Subscribing", that's a whole new world for me and frankly I'm not sure how it works. If I figure it out I'll let you know :-)
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