(applicable to other types of information too)
This post will also give you an idea on how you can use the list coloring and drag & drop features to revise and remember any set of information.
Recently, I had to teach spellings of about 50 words to my child. I used a WhizFolder document for this purpose. Here was the general approach.
- I first went through the list and found out the words that the child already knew. I added them first, each as a topic name.
- Then, I took one of the remaining words and taught the child how to break the word into several parts and spell each part. I added each such word to the topic list and colored the topic name “yellow.” I added a note at the top that “yellow” topics were those that the child didn’t know but had had a briefing on.
- Next day, we revised the yellow words to see how well she got them. I marked the ones that she still had difficulty with in “green” color. To each word’s (topic’s) text, I also added a note on what the difficulty was.
- This way, each successive day, I could use a different color scheme to narrow down the words till she mastered them all.
- I also made notes inside the topics themselves on which part of the spelling the child had a difficulty with. Getting her to first remember the mistake before trying next time helped a lot.
Hence, the coloring scheme of WhizFolders can be used to filter or screen any such list of things. Of course, you could do this in a word processor too. But, the advantage here in the topic list is that you could easily drag or move around the words in a “Done” section or a “Difficult” section of the topic list and adding notes or subnotes to an item becomes very easy. You only see as much detail as necessary.