I would also love to hear what recommendations people have for the CDs that come with the books. I have two sets of CDs for each grade level (1-3), one set is a collection of CDs in jewel cases, the others are in a PC/DVD style box (but are marked CD-Rom, they aren't DVDs as far as I know).
I have a Mac and, obviously, they won't run because they were intended for Windows. However, it seems to just be a collection of flash and PDF files, which should theoretically be platform independent. I've heard they can simply be copied, but so far, dragging/dropping/copying the pdfs doesn't work. Even trying to click a file on the CD (like, say, "Lesson1.pdf"), and open it results in an error saying the file doesn't exist or has been moved (though it hasn't, it's still on the CD).
Just in case someone thinks I'm being difficult (by trying to get the lessons on my Mac): running the CDs on my school laptop doesn't seem to want to work either. None will auto-run, and clicking the program file to start it usually results in waiting...with nothing happening. In one case, the CD did start, and had a bunch of menus for the different lessons... Except that when you actually clicked on a lesson to view that page in the book, the PDF pages wouldn't load, and behaved as if the actual PDF pages did not exist anywhere on the CD. The CDs were all shrink-wrapped, so it's doubtful that the CDs were damaged or erased.
Any bright ideas are welcome. I'd love to be able to look over these materials without having to haul the books home. And I assume these CDs are necessary for the listening portions that I'm supposed to teach, because nowhere in my books does it actually have the dialogue they're supposed to listen to (except for the dialogues in the activity book).
