Here's Molly, studying online for a spelling test. SpellingCity.com is saying the words to her (hence her headphones), and she's typing them and then it tells whether or not she spelled them correctly.Noah loves logging on to "Virtual Classroom" which has become a standard part of sixth grade life. He can find out about assignments, have access to textbooks and other resources, and they have the "virtual backpack" option where they can work on an assignment (say, a writing assignment), save it as a text file to their virtual backpack online, and access it at school the next day to work on it further during class or print it out to turn in.
Also, Noah is learning some computer programming from his dad. So far he's built two simple websites (not online) and a calculator. He loves it!
It's funny to look back at when I was about Noah's age and we had one of these at our house; the height of personal computing. An Apple IIGS. We rocked the Oregon Trail, and printed stuff out on our dot matrix printer. We had those 5.25" floppy discs. This baby could even store 256K of data. Is that awesome or what!?
4 comments:
Wow, that is awesome!! Love that spelling test. Would have come in handy when I was a kid. I am glad to know their school is computer savvy because we are going there next year!
Wow - you guys had the fancy computer growing up! Ours was the Apple 2C with the tiny screen that was DOS and only green & black (no colors or windows).
Wow, it looks like Molly has her fingers placed on the keyboard like someone that's taken a typing class! I used to just type with my index fingers at her age (on a typewriter- I think we got our first computer when I was about 10).
Oh, Oregon Trail...brings back good memories! I'm going to have to try that spelling site for Gabe!
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