Yesterday I spent the day at Transcript Bootcamp.  My friend, Eve, had about a dozen homeschool moms to her house to watch the DVD seminar of that name from Education PLUS, featuring Inge Cannon. The other moms all had children just entering the high school years. I was there because I have created two high school transcripts already, and Eve wanted someone "with experience" to answer questions.  It was really an excellent seminar. I had never seen or been to Inge Cannon's "bootcamp" before, but many of her methods and suggestions were things I had done.   I was impressed with the thoroughness of the presentation, and also that it did not take a " YOU MUST DO IT THIS WAY" approach. The whole seminar featured Inge Cannon sitting at a desk and speaking to the camera, and she was very clear and at times quite humorous!  I was relieved to hear her speaking nice and slowly, because I had attended a workshop she gave at our state homeschool convention quite a few years ago, and she spoke a hundred miles an hour, because she was trying to fit so much information into that hour!!  My hand got cramps from taking notes. Each person got a workbook to go along with the seminar which had notes and examples and additional articles to read. I didn't purchase the workbook, thinking that I had the transcript thing already figured out, but now I think I might try to purchase it anyway. There was a lot of good information in there.   I got some good ideas for recordkeeping and for converting real life learning experiences into credits for a transcript.  

The seminar consisted of four 1-hour sessions.  We watched an hour, took a break and talked about it, watched an hour, had lunch, watched an hour, took a break.....there was an awful lot of information to digest in one sitting.  I think I would break it up into two days if we do it again for our support group.

The DVDs cost about $80.   You can also buy the seminar version, which includes workbooks for a number of people, at a discounted rate.

http://www.edplus.com/tbc.asp

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