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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Saturday Night - 9:00 pm
We can hear the crackling of our neighbor's campfire and music from our other neighbor's CD. Ooh, just heard
that unique metalic sound of an aluminum can opening outside my window. In a way I wish we could be "playing outside"
with our friends, but in another way, it feels good to be excited about our projects.
Mike is tweeking
the download for our Computer Game Maker-Lite sale. He created a pop-up window so we could offer a
free deck of Obama Solitaire with every purchase of Game Maker-Lite. I hope a lot of teachers will hurry and buy a copy
so they'll have it to make one last hurrah before the school year is ended.
I think Mike understood, for the
first time tonight, what Computer Game Maker Lite means to me. We stopped at McDonald's and for
some reason I started going on about how, if I were still in the classroom, I would be so happy to download this software.
I told him if I were teaching 2nd grade deaf kids again, and if, for example we were going for a year end trip at the Milwaukee zoo,
I'd go to that website and capture every picture of every animal we were going to see. I'd import those pictures
into Computer Game Maker Lite and type names like: rhinoceros, king penguin, Chinese alligator, Pacific Giant
Octopus (or better yet, have the kids type the names and import the pictures) and voila', they'd have a memory
game to play so that by the time they got to the zoo, they'd know all the names of the animals! Or I'd call
the parents of the deaf kids in my class (deaf ed. classes are small enough to do that) and have them send pictures
of items (or relatives far away) whose names they wanted the kids to learn with fingerspelling and word recognition.
I oculd go on, but it's late and you've got the idea. I love what our software program can do. That's
why we created it.
10:12 pm pdt
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