Poor Susie, all that hard work and now she has to start all over again.

Been there done that and I am sure I will do it again!  I just recently had to search everywhere for a project I have done several years now and could not find it anywhere.  I thought I kept hard copies of it, I believed that I had it saved on a thumb drive, I was almost positive it was in my Google Docs.  Stressed out and beyond frustrated I began rewriting the entire project.  The project was nearly done, again, when I remembered where I had saved it.  There it was, with a name that I am sure made sense when I saved it, but for the life of me I couldn't make a connection between the file name and the content.  Oh well, I found it.

This year I have begun compartmentalizing each of my units.  With reading resources, I have created a folder for each unit and within each unit I have placed a folder for each week.  This way I can easily find a specific story and the resources for that story.  I used to keep a page with URL's of sites that I liked to visit during specific reading lessons, but what I have found is that sometimes the sites are no longer up.  So to combat that happening again, I now take a screen shot or save as a PDF if possible, and place those in my folders as well.  All the files are upload to my Google Docs personal account

For specific skills I keep folders for language arts, math, science, and social studies.

To help me keep all this organized, I have been converting all my old files to new and discarding resources that I either no longer use, or that did not work well for me.  In the past I kept everything - after all I might need it some day.  But with technology improving everyday, I figure if I need it that bad some day down the road I can find it, or more likely, something better.