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I was about to write a nice quiet and rational title when I decided that I wouldn’t so I wrote the title you see and though some may consider that to be quiet and rational, I don’t.

This morning a box arrived which I opened with eagerness about three hours after it’s arrival when I finally decided that I should not ignore it any more. It’s contents where examined closely and then I finally got to the point where I installed it on my computer. And in case you have no idea whatsoever what I am talking about, I am talking about Switched on Schoolhouse. The new Switched on Schoolhouse. The interface is slightly confusing but once you get used to it it is not bad. It is not particularly “quick and easy” but it could have been a LOT worse. Student Mode and Teacher Mode are now in two completely different programs, and if you want you can have them both open at the same time.

Having set up a student with all of the necessary schoolwork I started doing “Language” that being the cd that was currently in there as it was the last one I installed. So far it is has been relatively easy, I only missed one problem out of about thirty on the quiz, and I’ve done about four lessons. Hopefully the whole course won’t take too long. And hopefully I will retain at least a particle of what I’ve learned. Oh, did you know that the word “jargon” comes from an old french word which means the “chattering of birds”? That is one piece of interesting knowledge I will probably retain. At the moment I seem to be primarily writing in words of more than one syllable. Or perhaps not. I suppose I am attempting to raise my level of competence with the English language to such a lofty altitude that I shall have no difficulty whatsoever in completing eleventh grade language.