If you are like me, you might be a little bit of a an SLP hoarder. Maybe you even got a cool award at work like I did.
I wrote a post last weekend about how I was getting organized. In addition to hoarding commercially made speech and language materials-I also hoard products I’ve purchased on Teacher’s Pay Teachers and other sites. My freebie this month is a directory you can use to quickly find your purchased products when you are completing your lesson plans.
This is an editable PowerPoint file. You should be able to open it in any version of Power point. You will need to take a screen shot of the product cover so that you have an image to add to the square. Not sure how to take a screen shot? Check out Take a Screen shot.org I would feel comfortable with you taking a screen shot of the covers of my products for organizational purposes. Please use common sense and keep copyright law in mind when taking screen shots.
Here is how I do it on my Mac. Once you have the template open, you just right click on an empty square.
Choose Format shape.
Choose Fill and Picture/texture to add the cover sheet.
Choose your product cover and click okay.
It’s pretty easy. It looks a little bit different depending on your version of Power point and the version of software you have. Here is one tutorial for PC.
Check out the video that I made:
You can download your organizer by clicking HERE.
Beth Voegeli says
I love your organization idea and I would like to try it! When I downloaded your organizer it was not in power point format. How can I get it to be a power point?
adminS2U says
I put the wrong file in my dropbox-sorry for the confusion. It is fixed now!
Julie says
This looks like an awesome product but I clicked on the link to get the product and it keeps opening up as a PDF rather than the powerpoint… Is there a way around that?
adminS2U says
Sorry, I put the wrong file in my dropbox. It is fixed now! Thanks for letting me know!
kkddlee says
The download link is giving me a pdf file – any way I can get the Powerpoint download so that I can edit and add my pictures? Not sure how to get what I need! thanks
adminS2U says
Sorry-I’m so used to making things PDF for downloads that I put the wrong file in my dropbox. It is fixed now. Thanks for your patience!!!
Mary says
Good idea! I put mine in folders that are categorized, then when I print something out, I transfer it to a thumb drive.
adminS2U says
You are so smart to put them in designated folders. I put them in one folder which made it difficult to figure out what I had.
Teach Speech 365 says
Great idea!
Sparklle SLP says
Love it! This is the organization I have in my head, it’s just doing it right then and there that I lack…procrastination and hoarding are not good together!!
adminS2U says
I struggle with the same thing!
Suzanne says
This is a fabulous idea, thank you for sharing!!
Hope says
Love that you use pictures of the covers! I have written lists of my materials, but often the title isn’t enough to trigger my memory of what something actually is. The visual will definitely improve my memory of the item. Thanks for the idea!
adminS2U says
Thanks!
Nicole Slough says
I love this idea. I have a TON of folders within my TPT folder, but they could use some more organization. I screenshotted this on my iPad and am just now getting around to looking it up. Thanks so much.
adminS2U says
Awesome! I’m glad to hear that this will help!