Summer break's over... time for summer!

Back from weddings and bike rides and travels, oh my!

Time to turn the random ideas for "how can I use this stuff" into ... yea, a real course, with measurable outcomes and all that. Grades, even!!!

Since it will be a credit available to the "reading limited," we could even get folks signed up for it... since it will be an 8-week offering that can start any time in the first eight weeks, that'll bring 'em in, too. They *will* tend to be the students with risk factors (like having scored in the "reading limited" range on the assessment, and whatever factors make you late signing up for credits).

Learned today: Poems aren't that predictable (okay, I did know that at some level ;) ), though Emily Dickinson worked better than Langston Hughes. "Winged" and "barren" just weren't going to get there. Will find another passage that should work.

Thinking of writing up for an article to use for Read and Write Gold a summary of the "Growth Mindset" model from Dweck. Hmmm... could be a chance to include the "spell that" feature of Dragon Naturally Speaking. Still nowhere near a "composing an essay" kind of activity but that's a quantum leap.

FIrst, though, a "use it Monday" version. Will link...