Week 2 of INCA

(Originally posted to Narrow Path Home Study blog on Weebly, now deleted.)

Week 1 of INCA is officially over and Week 2 has begun. Narrow Path is being largely overlooked unfortunately, however, getting used to the new school has been an eye opener.

Our family has used Google Chrome exclusively for the past four years or so, however we are quickly finding out that despite Chrome's wonderful features, they are going the route of controlling what their users can and cannot download or access. This means that the Windows Media Player Plugin that the children need to view certain videos through school cannot be accessed. How aggravating!
So, although I detest Internet Explorer, Victoria uses it as a backup for when something does not work through Chrome. Alexander is using my desktop, and I had completely ripped out IE years ago. I did this when the newest browser updates required Vista or higher. I also was using Mozilla Firefox exclusively for my web browsing. After some unfortunate side effects of Firefox updates around 2010, I came across Chrome and stripped my computer of Firefox and Safari as well.

While no computer system is without its fair share of problems, I pride myself on keeping a fairly quick running system (though my husband constantly complains about how slow it is running). When there is nothing installed on a computer, of course it will not get bogged down. Of course companies create software that worms its way into the start up processes, making your computer bog down so you will constantly upgrade your RAM. And of course, eventually your motherboard becomes maxed out on the number of bytes of RAM it can handle, so now you have to spend money to upgrade your motherboard. And unless you have gobs of money, are a geek (like me), or a gamer (like I used to be), you have no patience for installing a new motherboard. You will then find it easier to buy a completely new system for several hundred dollars.

Welcome to commerce in the latest century, folks.

Needless to say, I re-installed Firefox for Alexander. The children have been told that they are to use Chrome for school, but if something does not work correctly, try to use their alternate browser. If it still does not work properly, come get a Learning Coach.

Sometimes, technology is ridiculous.

Day 2 of INCA

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Yesterday I had to work and so Dad was left home alone with the children to start their first day of Indiana Connections Academy. We are still tweaking the computers to allow the pages they need for school.
Lady Victoria seems to be handling it all quite well, though there were some technical difficulties with her Science lesson and she frankly is finding every excuse not to do PE.
Sir Alexander on the other hand is experiencing more anxiety. It boggles the mind since it has nothing to do with his actual schoolwork, but with the LiveLesson he was unable to attend this morning for lack of space in the online chat room. He was so looking forward to participating and sent the request at 9:31 am. It ended before he was ever accepted into the room. And he completely lost it. *sigh*

~Mom on a Narrow Path

Vacation

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Of sorts. All the kids have to do this week is their Every Week list. This includes typing and math drills, reading and exercise and Connexus (Connections Academy). It will be the same next week as well. Well frankly it will be that way from here on out. I do not want to confuse them between what I am teaching and what their actual school is teaching them. So this is just a quick update in case anyone was wondering about where week 12 was in the pages.

~Mom on a Narrow Path