We had an excellent first meeting today, I thought. I enjoyed getting a chance to see how far Madeline’s come with the XO in just a couple of weeks. Certainly, a little exploration can be a great teaching tool. I particularly enjoyed connecting our two XO’s together and shooting photos around the coffee shop. Watching Madeline play Memorize and sing and shout into the Measure Activity were also both good moments.
I mentioned some links for y’all. Here’s a roadmap of planned updates to the software, as well as some instructions on how to do a manual update (although I don’t think that you need to do one at this time).
Also, the XO is currently set up with the generic colors and name that I assigned when I tested the machine. Here are some instructions for changing the name and colors. We can do this at our next session if you’d like. Oh, and I promised a homework assignment. I’ll think a little bit more about that before I assign anything.
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1 Gail Desler // Feb 16, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’m looking forward to following Madeline’s adventures and discoveries with the XO. Kind of feels like a journey into the 21st century;-).
I don’t know if you’ve seen this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJIAucDOU0&eurl - a good teacher resource produced by a librarian.
Thanks for sharing,
Gail
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