Good Vibrations

I feel some positive momentum coming on. First, um, to keep people anonymous, tech support agreed to work with me today to upgrade surflock. I hope this is a good thing. Second, sat down with Mark (I don't think he'll care if I use his name) and discussed the future of computers and the English Department. I think he was pretty receptive to what I wanted to do - Expand the program either into the sophomore level or another classroom at the freshman level. Also talked for a long time with a person who I think would be great to run a second lab and she's definitely excited about it. I really do think she'd do a great job, too. So Mark and I discussed the value of the program and what we could do to present this to the Board. We also talked a bit about costs and the possibility of using computers other than tablet PC's (which is ok for me). Anyway, the thrust is that I've still got to do something that ties together this program and sells it - I'm thinking a short Movie Maker presentation accompanied by a rather long report.
In class - kids are rolling forward on projects, clauses and phrases are still as hard as ever, I'm 2 chapters behind in Speak study guides. Thanksgiving is coming. Hoping the SurfLock upgrade works well and we can throw it out to the entire school. Still have grant proposals to go through. Ok, Ok. Back to work - btw cps in p2 was pretty bad - 40.63% on 15 items. Mind you, these are the same items we went over on Tuesday (slightly different questions, but still phrases and clauses). And I can't pull the data from Quizshow so I won't know if it was just p2 that bombed or all of em. And since the quiz on Friday is cumulative and I can't do a percentage report on particular items, I can't compare that 40% to anything that I learn on the quizzes. I don't think. Maybe I should look more closely at percent correct reports on tagged elements. Later.
I'll tell you how the surflock installation goes, too.