This is a school-wide lesson for Minarets High, a 21st century high school located in North Fork, CA. Created by Matt Powers.

2. Are you organized?

4. Information overload?
Sometimes...
At Minarets we tend to get hit with information
fast.
100 emails a day...
Multiple projects...

6. You just need to make systems.

8. Folders:
Boxes within Boxes within Boxes

10. Start by creating folders for every class.
Ag Science Period 1
English 10 Period 2
Geometry Period 7

12. Then specialize (folders
within folders): Notes
Projects
Sound
Video
Homework
Writing
Important Docs

14. How you save is important too:
- Avoid being generic: Untitled1, Paper1, Essay,
Englishpaper, etc.
- Be Specific: MacbethEssay12/1/11
- You can always organize folders by week or
month if need be.
- Put it in the right folder in the first place and
you’ll always find it there waiting.

16. Organize your desktop

18. Seek the Feng Shui Desktop

21. Okay, so not that drastic.

23. Have you ever lost something?
Music?
Pictures?
A paper?
Notes?

25. Check out Evernote.
You can sync it with your
phone, any computer, and
online.
www.evernote.com

27. Whether you’re sharing music or notes, accessing your stuff on the move or
collaborating with a classmate, Evernote makes it easy.

29. Portfolios:
Your good
stuff

31. Portfolios consist of:
- Your best work
- Work for presentation of skill (future
resumes/college apps)
- Work to show progress
- Any kind of multimedia or writing
that you like that you’ve done.

32. Collecting allows for witnessing
growth. It also gives us something
to use on our resume or college
applications.

34. Organization also involves daily
habits:
- Check your email every pro period
- Respond to your emails promptly and enter
important dates into your Google Calendar
- Create folders for each class to organize
mail
- Check your grades at least once a week
- Back up your computer once a month

36. If you click the “# more” button (left
column) you will have a menu that pulls
down and choose the “Create new
label” option. The “label” is a folder.
Click on a Label to find all the
e-mails sorted to there.

38. Google Calendar is top left just after Mail.

40. It’s legit.

42. All these things will make you fast and sleek.

44. Review:
- Folders
- Save it properly (named & placed)
- Feng Shui Desktop
- Evernote
- Portfolios (Save the Good Stuff!)
- Daily Habits (Check your email, grades,
respond)
- Google Folders and Labels

46. If you organize, you can be like me!