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"We don't use textbooks; we use a lot of computers.”

-Freshman Brent Rasmussen

J e r e m y
Carrell: " . .
t (HyperCard) is
just like a text­
book, but it's on
I will turn pages for you if you
a computer. It
d click on a certain area. There's
writing or graphics on each
page. I have a computer at
home, but I didn't know what
I a HyperCard was and then
Mr. Davis went to a work­
shop, came back and said, I
don't like textbooks.' So we
I started working with the Hy­
perCard." Jenni­
fer McCoy: "You
■i
can put your own
information on the
computer, like
from the textbook
if it has better in­
formation, so you have more
than a textbook would. It's
I really easy to pick up; you can
Brent
learn it in a day.
Rasmussen: It'sbasicallyself
explanatory." How is your
biology class different?
n perfect form to bowl a Rasmussen: "We don't use
I Istrike is Junior Trish textbooks; we use a lot of com­
Bade. Bade was a part of puters. It's more fun because
Varsity Bowling Team and you get to work with comput­
participated in many ers and make programs do
tournaments. different things than you could
with a textbook." Carrell:
repared to knock down "We don't have many tests.
I Jensen. Jensen was high Mr. Davis would make a Hy­
P the pins is Senior Julie
scorer on the Ralston perCard project and put it onto
the computers and we would
n Bowling Team.
study it and he would ask us
questions about it." McCoy:
"I think the people who are
i using a textbook are missing
out, because it's a lot faster
and more fun. With the com­
puter you can learn in the style
l you want to. Sometimes the
book doesn't always have the
best way to learn."
Rasmussen: "You don't have
to take anything home."
Carrell: I didn't like science at
the beginning of the year until
we started working with the
computers. With the com­
puter you can make a lab.”