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    Audiobooks etc

    in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges

    Posted

    How does audible work?  I'm not very tech, and it always seems like something I would have to figure out how to do.  I don't know of anyone who uses it, so I don't really even know what they are selling people.

    How Audible works.

     

    Audible is an affordable source for The Great Courses. For conventional books, check if your local library has OverDrive or another audiobook source.

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    Waaah! I am so screwed.

    in The Chat Board

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    I feel your pain. My computer is on its last legs, so I have been storing everything directly on my external hard drive. The hard drive is always connected to the computer. I don't store anything on the computer since it can conk off any day.

     

    Last night, the computer suddenly stopped recognizing the hard drive. I restarted the drive, rebooted the computer, nothing worked. I'd have lost all my files. 

     

    Luckily, dh suggested I connect the hard drive to his computer. It is able to recognize the hard drive, so I was able to copy everything onto his (other) external hard disk.

     

    I am going to get a new external hard disk for myself today, and for long term, we are looking at a network-connected storage (NAS) for the whole house.

     

    Anyway, you should try taking the external hard drive to a repair shop. It will cost you, but at least you'll have your important documents back.

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    I Hate Required Access Codes! (JAWM)

    in The College Board

    Posted

    .. I got to spent ANOTHER $50 to rent an older edition of the textbook ... DD has comprehension issues with e-reading and really needs a paper book to write and highlight in...

    You probably meant "buy" there because she cannot write and highlight in a rented book, can she?

     

    When I wanted to annotate a book but not write in it, I stuck little Post-its on each page.

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    Quick, "Grab and Go" Healthy Snacks

    in The Chat Board

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    As an aside, a hemp protein smoothie with two tablespoons of peanut butter, 4 tablespoons of hemp powder, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, a few drops of honey or Stevia, and 1 tbsp coconut oil (and about 5 ice cubes) will keep me full for HOURS. 

    Which hemp protein do you use?

    What country for 8th grade?

    in Accelerated Learner Board

    Posted

    What a great idea! I did just a little poking, and Singapore has a history series called "Singapore: the Making of a Nation-State" published by Star Publishing. I don't know how easy it is to get.

    This is a set of two textbooks. Vol 1 covers pre-colonial Singapore, and Vol 2 covers colonial Singapore from the British occupation to the Japanese occupation.

     

    The follow-up to that is this textbook series from Pearson:

     

    All About History Unit 1: European Dominance and Expansion In South East Asia
    All About History Unit 2: The World In Crisis
    (The Making of the Contemporary World Order, 1870s-1991)
    All About History Unit 4: Decolonisation and The Emergence of Nations 
    All About History Unit 3: Bi-Polarity and The Cold War 
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    Why is the search on this board SO BAD??

    in The Chat Board

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    I use Google to do a general search in the forum.

     

    What I'd love is to be able to search within topics I follow. Over the years I've used the "Follow this topic" button to bookmark threads to read later. Now I have so many in that list, I have to scroll several pages to find a specific topic.

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    How do I make slime?

    in The Chat Board

    Posted · Edited by nansk

    I have made three batches with the contact solution and none of them will harden no matter how much contact solution I put in.  I wonder if we got the wrong solution?  This box says "all purpose solution" and is for soft contact lenses. 

    DD says you must use the ReNu brand of contact lens solution.

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    How do I make slime?

    in The Chat Board

    Posted · Edited by nansk

    My dd says you must make sure your glue has Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA). In case it is not listed in the ingredients, the way to test it is to put a drop of glue on a plastic surface and leave it overnight to dry. If it dries clear, and if you are able to peel it off, that means it contains PVA.

     

    I am the kind of cook who needs exact measurements of all ingredients in a new recipe. A dash of this and a pinch of that doesn't work for me. When I first let my dd make slime, I made her search for a recipe which gave exact measurements and it turned out well. Now she eyeballs it and gets it right.

     

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    Article: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

    in The Chat Board

    Posted · Edited by nansk

    I definitely see an effect on my 12yo. She used to be glued to a book or Kindle. Now, she spends several hours of her free time on the phone. And she is not reading anything on it; she is looking at videos of herself on Snapchat or Musical.ly - a completely pointless activity, imo.

     

    But I don't blame entirely her. She has no siblings or cousins to play with. And all her friends are on their own phones. Even before we got her the phone last year, when we used to get together with a few families, all the kids would be clustered together, each on his/her own device, leaving my dd to grow bored and unhappy. So there is a certain amount of peer pressure of having your own phone and all the cool apps installed, getting friends to follow each other, etc.

     

     

     

    But, then again, I want my kids to learn to self-regulate....

    I do, too. But right now that is not happening. For a few years at least, we have to restrict access and monitor their phone usage, till they mature enough to see the advantage of doing so themselves.

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    AP Computer Science Principles

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted · Edited by nansk

    Edhesive offers AP Comp Sci Principles... 

     

    Thank you. I am looking at other providers also, and the course from Berkeley also looks good.

     

     

    If you've already taken AP Comp Sci A, then the Principles course would be a waste, yes?

     

    From the College Confidential thread that RegGuheert linked, it appears that yes, for college credit, if you have taken AP CSA, then the AP CSP course will be pointless. 

    In fact, it appears that most selective colleges will not give credit for this course.

    However, since it covers a broader range of topics that your student may be interested in, perhaps she/he can follow the course from Berkeley for self-study but not take the exam.

     

    AP Computer Science Principles

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted · Edited by nansk

    Thank you for the new links. Lots for me to read.

     

    I thought the course looked like a good first step before learning to code; learning computational thinking before learning actual programming. It appears to be suitable for a 7-8th grader or at the start of 9th grade. Programming languages will come and go, but knowledge of flowcharts, logical processing, functions, and abstractions will be useful regardless of what you actually code in. Plus this seems to introduce privacy issues, encryption, big data - topics which even non-programmers need to know today.

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