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Tips for saving work from April Jones, director of Computer Kids We all have good intentions at the beginning of the nursery year to keep a tidy desk, sort and file things away and keep on top of all that paper work. But one week into the term and it gets busy. There are other priorities, and somehow we just never get around to it. The same goes for children's computer work. A child produces a good drawing and you decide to save it. How? Where? What filename? 'Oh... just save it in the My Documents folder for now and I'll sort it out later!', you say.

We all have good intentions at the beginning of the nursery year to keep a tidy desk, sort and file things away and keep on top of all that paper work. But one week into the term and it gets busy. There are other priorities, and somehow we just never get around to it. The same goes for children's computer work. A child produces a good drawing and you decide to save it. How? Where? What filename? 'Oh... just save it in the My Documents folder for now and I'll sort it out later!', you say.

This is a good time to get your ICT organised. We write up our registers and make class lists, peg and tray names, so why not make named digital folders for each child's computer work?

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