Sorta O/T - organizing your HS links

[Cullens_Girl]

Are they all lumped in one folder or do you have them categorized? I need help organizing all the great links I've collected... I still need to sort through them one by one... I bookmark everything, but know I need to whittle down to prevent being overwhelmed...

So how do you have them categorized in your homeschooling folder?

Or am I the only one who feels the need to micromanage my links?

[3momkmb]

Nope! not the only one! I have mine sorted into several folders.

They are:

articles
online activities (starfall, study dog, BBC kids, etc)
printables (donna young and such)
teacher resources (Purple math, KISS grammar, knitting patterns etc)
Unit studies which is further broken down into several actual units like dinosaurs and bats (with links within) and then an ideas folder with pages of unit ideas)
Reading lists which includes the link to our library's online catalog
Curriculum places to buy curriculum online

[Itlbokay]

lol, have mine organized.

Main folder divided up into: Homeschooling/Education, Schools, Education Articles, Homeschooling Supplies, etc. It needs some tweaking, but much easier than all being in one folder.

[Mallory]

Mine are organized by subject, under the main homeschooling folder. The first folders are for articles, games, ect. and then I have a to buy folder where I put sites that are just commercial.

AR Homeschooling
art
foreign languages (latin, spanish)
history
homeschooling
language arts (handwriting, poems, reading lists)
math
music
p.e.
science
to buy (sorted by the above categories into even more folders plus a folder for secular, and used)

[saphire]

I break mine down into subjects too. Anybody want to share favorites that may not already be bookmarked?

[oceanbaby]

Mine are somewhat organized. Under HS'ing, I have subject categories like History, Art, Math, Language Arts, etc. I have a section for Blogs, one for Curriculum, a section for cool online stores.

But then I have a whole bunch under just hs'ing cuz they don't fit neatly into a subcategory, so in the end I have a bunch I just have to scroll through.

[Cullens_Girl]

Originally Posted by saphire

I break mine down into subjects too. Anybody want to share favorites that may not already be bookmarked?

there is a great list of links stickied up top of the forum if that's what you are interested in...

[Cullens_Girl]

luckily I'm just in the preschool phase so I don't have THAT much to organize, but I do have quite a bit... I'm just bookmarking as I can sift through a site. Sometimes I have a site bookmarked in two places for easier reference.

Here are the categories I've come up with so far... I'm sure I'll come up with more as I come across sites... As I collect Math, Science and other subjects I'll create a folder for them.


Homeschooling Folder
(about 15 general links that aren't good for any category)

In that folder I have:
Animals
Articles
Arts/Crafts - (w/seperate coloring page folder inside)
Astronomy
Curriculum - Freebies/Printables
Curriculum - Paid
Educational Sites (museum pages, reference pages, libraries, etc.)
Elections
Foreign Language
Games/Fun
History
Homeschool Laws
Music
Organization (homeschool supplies stores, charts, calendars, etc.)
Preschool Sites
Reading
Toys (Educuational toy store sites)
Unschooling
Waldorf


thanks for the great tips.

[bwylde]

My bookmarks scare me . I have so many bookmarked I'll probably never get to. There is just sooo much information out there : and I just bookmark like crazy. I do have categories but some fall under more than one so I don't know where to put it. I should just have one folder of my most used links (like http://www.gutenberg.org and blogs). I put all links DS uses in his own folder so he can get to them. Definately something I need to organize in the near future.

[dharmamama]

I have a general homeschooling folder that is subdivided into:

Book Sources (Usborne, Barefoot Books, etc.)
Buddhist (Curricula, Activities, Stories, Family sites, etc.)
Curricula Ideas (CM, WTM, etc.)
General Links
Libraries and Books (Links to good local libraries and general library sites)
*Books to Read
*Good Booklists
Literature Guides (Commercial and non-commercial)
Reading/Grammar (Starfall, grammar games, etc.)
Regulations and Standards (Ohio regulations, different sets of standards just for ideas)
Specific Subjects
*Science
*History
*Math
*Geography
*African Studies
*Peace Education
*Multicultural Education
Unit Studies (Sites offering unit studies)
Worksheets (Sites offering worksheets or worksheet generators)
Units (Units I have done with the kids, all the links we used)
*Rainforests
*Outer Space
*Dinosaurs
*Deserts
*Little House

Then of course I have dozens of links I have not yet categorized.

HTH!

Namaste!

[joandsarah77]

My bookmarks scare me

:

When my dh set up my new computer he groaned at my files. I have thousands and still bookmark like crazy as some other pp said. I have about 20 main folders to do with education, inside each one of those are sub folders, and some of those sub folders have sub folders. : yet? I can't even imagine having only 1! language Arts is one of my largest main folders, inside that I have 20 sub folders. Way too many to write them all out here. So say if I saved a site on story prompts, I move that to my Writing folder which is inside my language arts folder. Then if I am being really orginized I put that in one of the sub sub folders (creative writing for story prompts)inside of the writing folder.
The sub folders are broken down to-
Creative writing
cursive
printing
pre writing
writing paper and fonts

Lol I'm not called the link queen for nothing
Sorry if that was all as clear as mud.

[frogguruami]

I catagorize by subject.