{"id":193,"date":"2008-07-22T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T08:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-07-22T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T08:39:37","slug":"easy-book-of-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Easy Book of Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Screen print of our Book of Centuries <\/strong><\/h6>\n

We tried to do a Book of Centuries a couple of times before, but it was so hard rounding up the glue and scissors and pictures each time that we gave up. Now, we’ve ended up with one after all.\u00a0 It just grew while we were trying to do something else.\u00a0 I thought I’d share the idea in case it suits anyone else.<\/p>\n

It all started off because Antonia has a hard time remembering names, and needs to hear them many times before they stick.\u00a0 I began collecting pictures of the people we had studied in history from all over the Internet. I put these in a single folder on my computer, and set the folder to display as a slideshow.\u00a0 Once a week we looked through the folder and talked a bit about each person until she remembered their name.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Enheduanna page, with a passage from one of her hymns.<\/h6>\n

I soon realised that this was a good place to keep all the artists, composers and authors that she came across too.\u00a0 Then, we started to use it as a basis for narrations.\u00a0 Now, the slideshow has grown to include quotes, snippets of scores, famous paintings of events and many other things. I’ve included dates and names in the filename so they don’t complicate the pages.\u00a0 Also Antonia doesn’t notice them, and the idea is still for her to develop her own memory.<\/p>\n

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Here are some more detailed instructions for how I made the Book of Centuries Slideshow.\u00a0 The most important and least obvious one is last!<\/p>\n

Making the ‘pages’<\/strong>:\u00a0 I wanted to have all the ‘pages’ in the book the same size so I made a blank template in Photoshop.\u00a0 I’m sure just about any image editing software will work just as well.\u00a0 I add images from the Internet, resize them if I need to, and add text.\u00a0 Then I save the whole thing as a jpg.<\/p>\n

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Beethoven page with a tiny extract of the score of the 5th Symphony<\/h6>\n

Displaying in Windows<\/strong>: in the Start menu, click on My Documents or My Pictures or wherever you decide to keep the pictures.\u00a0 Browse to the right folder.\u00a0 In the menus choose View, then as Filmstrip.\u00a0 On my newer desktop, with Vista, things are a bit different.\u00a0 There is a button that says Slideshow, and that does a very nice job.<\/p>\n

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Hans Christian Andersen page with illustrations of his tales
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Keeping chronological order<\/strong>: I soon realised that Windows liked to sort my pages in a way that had nothing to do with chronology.\u00a0 I fiddled with the file names and eventually hit on the following scheme.\u00a0 Perhaps other people can think of a better one!\u00a0 My file name starts with a letter or number that indicates the century, or a longer period for earlier times.\u00a0 Z is for the 21st Century, A is the 5th Century BCE.\u00a0 The number 8 is the whole 2nd millenium BCE.\u00a0 When I want to sub-sort, I add another letter AA, AB, AC and so on.\u00a0 I’ve accepted that I’m going to have to modify the names of the files within each group from time to time to keep them in order. Who knows, if our book grows really big, I may break it into a separate folder for each century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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