I’m sure you know by now that our school is not traditional by any means. That includes this parent-teacher meeting. Welcome to the new millennia.
Our school day starts on the computer. The kids load up a program I named, “Broad Horizons” to see the following:
This is a virtual day planner stuck inside a software program. There are 180 days in this planner, and each day shows up on its own screen. Each day contains its own list of lessons, so the first thing that the kids do is look up what they’re supposed to learn from the left side of the day planner. Then they navigate to the lessons through the menu up top.
After the kids find the lesson, they click it, and then the screen displays the lesson’s content similar to this:
The entire lesson shows up in that window (a lesson that came from our GED book, from the internet, or anywhere else that was relevant) and sometimes there’s a silly movie to watch in the lesson. I found a bunch of educational videos at http://www.brainpop.com/. Please recommend it to all your friends.
BrainPOP.com looks like it’s for little kids, but it provides videos for all kinds of stuff (including reproduction, periods, sperm cells and everything else that you don’t really want kids to know about). So it’s all good.
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