The first group of people who wanted to give us computers is installing four next Monday - Martin Luther King Day. We don't have furniture, really, except a few picnic tables. So it's probably going to have to be those.
The big company will be calling Clyde this week, but the latest news seems to be that they'll be giving us twelve. I don't know how many of them will be brand new, but I'm not picky.
I do plan to go out and browse/window shop at CompUSA this afternoon. I hear the Reader Rabbit software is pretty good (according to my four year old niece). And it occurred to me last night that we could get language software for those of the kids who are learning Spanish. Clyde seems to be all about using the computers for internet access, but I keep harking back to my primary school days when we played a really basic game called Fletcher's Castle with the then brand new, BBC Micro machines. Fletcher's Castle was a teaching program for strategy, I think. I loved it, anyway. I just can't imagine not using these computers for actual teaching, as opposed to surfing.
Which is not to say that the internet can't teach you anything - but it's easier to supervise what people are doing if they don't have that option.
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Hi Tabby,
Nice blog. Regarding language software, I own the Rosetta Stone language software for Italian. Now that I've started school at Integrative Nutriton I don't make time for it, but it seems pretty good. It was expensive ($300). Hope you feel better soon.
From Your public speaking buddy.
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