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Showing posts with label homeschool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homeschool. Show all posts
Friday, October 18, 2013
NaBloWriMo Day 18 - School Daze
Son is home on a short break from college working on some homework while daughter does her homeschool lessons...
Love, love having my kiddos home and all of us together!
Life is good :)
Life is good :)
Monday, October 14, 2013
NaBloWriMo Day 14 - Blog du jour
For our homeschool language this year, we are using Rosetta Stone French Homeschool edition. If you're wondering if this hyped up course is all that it touts--rest assured, it is!...when it works.
Here's my tip of the day: DO NOT think you will cut costs and buy used like I did! Unfortunately, I ended up with an outdated version that would not install on my computer without a call to tech support. And tech support (once I could understand what he was saying), was not all that helpful. :(
It was not merely downloading a newer version from their support page as Mr. Tech Support led me to believe. Thankfully, my hubby, who is a computer wizard, intervened and went through the 15 step process which basically amounted to fixing my outdated version with duct tape...a series of renaming files, deleting files, re-downloading files, and re-renaming files before re-installing from the start-up disk made my head spin as I watched the tedious process. Unfortunately, all the rigmarole was not a perfect fix. The program still crashes and my frustrated daughter has to restart the computer to get it to work.
All that being said, I have been very impressed by the Dynamic Immersion method of teaching that this language software provides, and I do look forward to continuing with all the levels...which I will purchase in the form of the latest version from a reliable source from now on!!
Here's my tip of the day: DO NOT think you will cut costs and buy used like I did! Unfortunately, I ended up with an outdated version that would not install on my computer without a call to tech support. And tech support (once I could understand what he was saying), was not all that helpful. :(
It was not merely downloading a newer version from their support page as Mr. Tech Support led me to believe. Thankfully, my hubby, who is a computer wizard, intervened and went through the 15 step process which basically amounted to fixing my outdated version with duct tape...a series of renaming files, deleting files, re-downloading files, and re-renaming files before re-installing from the start-up disk made my head spin as I watched the tedious process. Unfortunately, all the rigmarole was not a perfect fix. The program still crashes and my frustrated daughter has to restart the computer to get it to work.
All that being said, I have been very impressed by the Dynamic Immersion method of teaching that this language software provides, and I do look forward to continuing with all the levels...which I will purchase in the form of the latest version from a reliable source from now on!!
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