Comments on: confessions of a t4l user

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:33:24 +0000

Someone totally blessed me by explaining to me that I could set my printer to “grayscale” or “fast printing’. It prints it out a little lighter, you can hardly tell. I like to use it for worksheets and things that dont’ really matter…

I am very tickled to see John comment on my post. I am actually surprised to hear that most parents don’t use the login and view the reports. I love to see what “grade” my kids get and see if they are mastering/passing the lessons.

I have viewed some threads about lesson planning and most parents,at least in my understanding, use them as record keeping. As in, they mark the lessons completed. But I am not saying that I fully understand. lol So I could be wrong. I cannot imagine using the plans to mark them on the calendar…

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:18:11 +0000

I don’t use the lesson plans or the playground, either! I don’t see the need for the lesson plans when you can just click on each section and do it that way. I rarely print out anything from T4L because I feel the lessons are complete enough on their own. And, I am picky about what I use my ink on! If he’s doing something online, why do a printout as well? The playground? I don’t have something (don’t know if it’s activeX or what) that I need to have to be on a lot of those game sites, so a lot of them don’t work. And the ones that do work, I’d already found and we use without having to be logged onto T4L, and he goes on them when he can and wants to. So, you’re not alone!

By: john edelson

john edelson — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:03:36 +0000

Jennifer - I’ve been reading your stuff. I like it. Thanks. FYI. Very few parents, probably just 10%, ever login and look at the reports. Probably a larger percent, maybe 20%, use the lesson plans. Mostly, there’s no reason to since the programming is self-running. Some parents use it for planning and put each lesson on a calender. Others seem to use it coordinate different lesson plans. I’m wondering if this question “How do you use the lesson plans” might be good one for our parents forum.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:39:22 +0000

Okay, I’ll confess along with you! LOL
I don’t use the lesson plans or the playground, either!

I did both at first, but soon dropped the paperwork and the playground.

For us, I find that just going through the lessons works. Even if we jump around, it is so easy to just click into a lesson and out to see where we need to be.

I love the playground and we used it a lot in the beginning. I really think it’s an issue of time and using one computer for the entire household-not just T4L.

However, both of these are great additions to the program. I have no doubt that we will use them again in the future.