Hello,

Many of us make our own personalized lesson plans from the Loom. We do this by cutting and pasting from the Loom into for example Word. We take the Accountability and Thinking questions put them into Word and then add spaces etc so that the students are able to write directly on the sheets or for older students do the work write on the computer.

Will we still be able to do this with the DE version and software?

Blessings,
Barb

Because of the required security, it is not possible to cut and paste text or images from the Tapestry DE documents.

Hi,
To give a bit more clarity to Ray's post...

As DE is currently set up, it isn't possible to copy and paste from the documents. However, we are still working on other features; this one takes more maneuvering, but we are strongly looking into the possibility.

Blessings,

Since I am one of the users that will cut/paste from the Loom and did this using the CD in Classic, I was wondering if there are any Classic CDs available for sale.

Thanks for your assistance,
Cathy

No, sorry. We don't have them available, and even if we did, it wouldn't serve you since they are so different than Redesigned week-plan content.

Here's a thought to sustain us while we continue to work out this new delivery of TOG content:

There are no questions to be rearranged for younger students, so we're only talking about older ones. In our house, I never did this extra work of creating worksheets for older students because I knew that this was not how they would be working later in life. In most curricula for older students (as in text books or books with questions at the end of a chapter), one simply numbers a notebook page or a digital Word file with numbers that correspond to the questions asked, reads the question from the source, and then answers it on paper or computer. I have always thought that, for older students, it is better training for future situations to go ahead and let them work from the original source (i.e. the Accountability or Thinking Questions) than to take the extra step of making them worksheets that are just questions spaced with places to answer.

With DE, each student can have his own sheet of questions printed easily (and they are already numbered). If you don't want to include certain questions, you can simply cross out the numbers of the ones you don't want him to do.

From this perspective, software-driven limitation of DE may end up freeing some of us from extra work, and may prove to make TOG a more effective training tool for our older students than we have been used to so far.

Can't you put varying levels of security on the different documents?

Hi!

I'm one of those people who occasionally cuts and pastes some of the student activity pages. Rather than making worksheets, however, I am combining or tweaking levels. For example, I have one child who is working at D level in most subjects but at the UG level on one or two subjects. Rather than printing off both levels for her and crossing out, I usually just cut and paste to make one printout for her. She then uses other paper to answer the questions.

It certainly will NOT be a major headache if I cannot do this but it does make her notebook so much tidier while we take advantage of the wonderful flexibility inherent in Tapestry. I certainly understand that DE is a process right now and not intended to be carved in stone. Perhaps after the bigger issues are resolved, this smaller issue could be considered.

Blessings,
Monica

We can definitely keep that in mind for future upgrades. Thanks!

Can't you just mount the SAP to the on-line "Loom" as you've done in the past - in pdf format? THEN we can manipulate them as we've always done. The SAP is still YOURS to offer as you've done in the past WITHOUT the encryption requirement - isn't it?

Thanks,
Janice

P.S. LOVE the PDF's for the SAP because I mount them to our house's network drive for all to see and work with throughout the week. It's a bit like using the "family binder" method - only in virtual format.

More: One of my favorite aspects of TOG is the way it pushes the child to own their work. I mount the Government Documents, the SAP's and the Maps to our household network drive. We even scan the yellow pages and mount them as well. All three kids know the system. We fill out their planners while clicking through pages on the screen. Then as they do the work during the week, they access the shared files. Maps and activity pages are printed, completed, and added to their "book" with the comb binder - all without ME! They copy and paste the questions from the SAP's into a Word Document and add their answers - AQ in complete sentences and paragraphs & TQ with notes or bullet points. When we have our discussion, they are running two documents at once - one with their virtual SAP's (During the discussion, they can easily add more info using another color or a different font to indicate that they missed this info on their own), and they have a fresh document that they are using to take notes from our discussion (this is where I help them to extract the main ideas from the discussion - things that they need to know to study for their quiz).

At the end of the semester (ours ended yesterday), everything is backed up to disc and dropped into their permanent folder - reading lists, SAP's, their discussion-prep pages, their writing assignments, and the quiz/test masters. I have them scan in their quiz/test answers and essay - this only takes a couple of minutes to do at the end of the quarter. At this point there is NO PAPER NEEDED! At the end of the year everything is merged into one disc - with a document of the course description, books read, etc. I DO keep the hard copies of the tests and quizzes in a file, but everything is backup onto disc and stored in the high-schoolers permanent file - all of the humanities on one teeny-tiny disc! It's a thing to behold in a teeny-tiny house!

I'm rambling.... and asking for copies of the TOG generated stuff - SAP's, government documents, evaluations in pdf without any little reptiles running around - as you have done in the past. I spent about a month this summer figuring out how to GET ME OUT OF THE LOOP with all of the day-to-day planning AND the end-of-the-year record keeping. Now the little people do it as they work and I don't end up staring at huge binders at year's end wondering WHAT to do with them - especially at the high school level. And they do it on their own. Without me!

Can we pretty please get pdf's at the end of the year on discs as before. Pretty please?