Tuesday Child vs Children

After running through a few tests it seems pretty clear that many of my students need help in irregular plurals. Classic in these is the Child Children probe. Many students will say childs instead of children when confronted with the choice. Soo

Today was child/Children day in class. I also worked in question asking plans.. Who are your children? What are their names? Using my family's name set, we ended up with a lot of questions to be asked. A lot of answers given.. so you all were part of my lesson today. My students were particularly interesting in my children. So they all found out about my children's names and where they were, where they were born. For my students on the spectrum, it gave them a chance to care about another. All in keeping with valentine's day which we all know is really blown out of proportion.

Today Adobe told me that they loved me by providing me with some very valuable serial numbers for my educational editions of CS4 design premium. Now if I can get the new Ilife 9 that I have ordered from Apple the new computer migration will be complete.

Going through the Dreameaver tutorial on Lynda. com shows that it will have a fairly steep curve for learning to be proficient in this program. It seems a shame that there is a trend toward more complex complicated versions of basic things to do that few years ago were easy. It seems that the complications of these new programs are not designed to make things easier, but rather to provide more depth. This is sad because the real reason many people choose to do Macintosh is because of the simple interface and the quick and easy way to do pretty cool computer oriented tasks. Instead we are getting programs that are so complex that the learning curve requires knowledge of complicated concepts and terminology to do what was reasonably easy before.

I am sorry folks but the Mac is looking and acting more like a PC every day... drat

Pat