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 lot of things both in curriculum and in interest. Kids just love em,

 and not just to play games on but to really get into using the computer.

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Jean: Did you start off in the beginning, did you uh, I know that uh John

 Spindler talked about the IGE program. Did you........

Diedeman: "No, that was the Kettering agreement. See it is sorta confused

 because there are two different ones. One comes out of Dayton and is

 affiliated with the Kettering Foundation and the other comes out of

 Wisconsin, both of them call themselves IGE but it is two different

 groups."

Jean: But that whole IGE thing was what you in fact started right here?

Diedeman: "That is what we cut our teeth on."

Jean: Well now is that what you still have that basically? That same thing?

Diedeman: "The philosophy we have. But again because of the, you know it

 seems like every year something has been added to the curriculum and this

 coming year is the first time the day has been lengthened to handle any

 of it. So when we get things added and added and added and you don't

 increase your time any, you have to cut from somewhere. And uh so I uh

 think from that standpoint we have probably been hurting a little bit.

 But I think we'll be able to get back, as a matter of fact, we are working

 on a schedule now that will be very similar as far as the amount of

 planning time during student day as to what we started off with."

Jean: Oh, it is going back.

Diedeman: "So I hope that this is a step back in the right direction which

 allows our teams to have enough planning time to do some of the inter-

 disciplinary kinds of things we have gotten away......If you don't have time

 you can't do that kind of activity. It takes an awful lot of time to plan."