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Being fully interactive makes learning more fun for your children. Alpha Omega
Switched On Schoolhouse has an exclusive Focus Learning System which ensures
that your children learn the material before continuing. This allows your children
to work more on their own and makes teaching much easier for you.
The program's instant grading component grades questions as soon as they are
completed, providing instant feedback. Your workload as a teacher is
reduced by 90 percent or more because Switched On Schoolhouse grades all
objective answers automatically, computes and records the scores, and comes with a
built-in lesson planning feature.
Questions and activities will challenge your children's grasp of the information.
Quizzes and tests will then prove his understanding. You can rest assured that
your children really do understand what they are learning.
Organizing your lesson plans and setting due dates is easier than ever. Automatic
lesson plans are based on your school calendar. You can generate a year's worth of
lesson plans with the click of a button. The schoolwork is spread evenly over the
year according to the number of questions. You can even change the lesson plans if
you have to adjust your school calendar partway through the year. Due dates are
automatically computed and posted for the student.
Past due notices will keep you on track. Based on your school calendar and lesson
plans, these notices automatically appear when your children are falling behind.
You won't need to keep reminding your children. Alpha Omega Switched On
Schoolhouse posts the Past Due notice and keeps up a warning until your children
are back on schedule.
They have thought of practically every option and control that you, as the teacher,
would want. The combinations are practically endless! You can set the penalty for
poor spelling, set the school calendar, choose to assign or skip lessons and
projects or even send your children back to redo them, just to name a few.
Have your children ever come up with a different (but also correct) answer than
the one given in the answer key? Sometimes there is more than one way to answer
a question. The short answer problems utilize an intelligent scripting system
that allows for a variety of correct answers. Your children will have the
opportunity to apply analytical problem solving. In this way, Alpha Omega
Switched On Schoolhouse promotes thinking skills rather than just rote memorization.
Some of the advanced activities you will have for testing your children's
knowledge are multiple choice, true/false, matching crossword puzzles, graphical
choice, paragraphs, selections, text choice, sorting, text entry, timed problems,
printed exercises, essays, drag-and-drop, spelling, and reports.
Education comes alive through multi-media. Here are a few examples of Alpha
Omega Switched On Schoolhouse multimedia features: video clips of Science experiments,
three-dimensional objects rotating in space, events in the Bible, literature, and
history; sound of the vocabulary words allow students to hear how each word is
pronounced and spelling tests are given directly by the computer. Your children's
education will be alive and fun again.
One of the academic core subjects of the Switched On Schoolhouse curriculum, the Bible
subject is a non-denominational, doctrinal approach to Scripture mastery. Your
children's view of God as Creator and Savior will be forever impacted through this
study of the Word.
The Alpha Omega Switched On Schoolhouse History and Geography curriculum will start your
children with an exploration of the 50 states and then take them on a tour of our world
geography. It is designed to make the study of history and geography relevant and thought
provoking.
The Alpha Omega Switched-On Schoolhouse Language Arts curriculum will teach your children
spelling, word meaning, parts of speech, grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary as well as
through creative writing and some of the more popular classics. With Switched On
Schoolhouse's Biblical perspective, you're children will learn to discern truth from
error - secular or religious.
The math curriculum of Alpha Omega Switched On Schoolhouse takes your children from introductory
arithmetic to algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus.
With Alpha Omega Switched On Schoolhouse the Science curriculum will teach your children
about plants, animals, rocks, and minerals, weather, biology, and chemistry. Your children
will master the concepts more easily through clear Switched On Schoolhouse instructions.
We highly recommend you check with our affiliate before making a final decision on curriculum.
You can even mix and match books and software from different publishers all at one website
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Learning Things - Alpha Omega Switched On Schoolhouse
Need a new computer to run the Alpha Omega Switched-On Schoolhouse software program? The minimum
system requirements are as follows:
- Pentium 133 or better
- 16 MB RAM (memory)
- 160 MB on your hard drive for a full installation
- 16-bit sound card capable of 22,050 KHz or better
- SVGA video card capable of 640 x 480 by 256 colors
- 4X CD-ROM drive
- Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000
Windows XP seems to have no issues, though it has not been fully tested. Many customers use
the Alpha Omega Switched On Schoolhouse curriculum (SOS) on Windows XP with no problems.
Note: These are minimal requirements, any new computer will meet and exceed these requirements.
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