Monday, February 16, 2009

Rosetta Stone

I was wondering if there were middle schools or elementary schools using
Rosetta Stone. If so, how are you using it?

We tried Tell Me More this year, and it was a disaster. There was no
Latin American Spanish, there have been tons of tech issues (no Mac
support for our Mac home users for the speech portion, can only use MIE,
have to go into Windows and Browser settings and make manual changes,
etc.), and their reporting is horrible (will show users online when they
weren't, will not show them on when they were on, time for one report is
on France time, the other one is on EST time and we are on PST.)

We are considering Rosetta Stone, but I wanted to get some feedback from
any other elementary or middle school that is using it. If your kids
access at home as well as at school, has this worked for you? Does the
reporting tool show correct times the student was online? Is it a
valuable use of time and money?

If you use something other than Rosetta Stone or Tell Me More,
especially if you are happy with it, I would love to know that too.

Thanks,

Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School

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