The pain is amplified

I have added to my troubles, and though I've taken medicine to reduce the excruciating pain, I have a severe headache that no ibuprofin is touching. I also feel a bit fevery. Woe is me.

But there's stuff going on in life, so I update myself on these events for no good reason.
First, Took some more video of kids working quietly and the afterschool posse yesterday (projects are due and LOTS of kids came after yesterday [probably today, too]). I have to take video of the remote games today during 7/8 as well.

Speaking of the remote game - I used CPS as a class today to review the new grammar exculsively - didn't want to take up too much time. I also asked a few basic questions like "do you have internet access at home" "how much do you use sharepoint" and asked about specific apps (quia, quizshow, study guides).
So where did these questions come from? Our board is beginning to insist that we all have a web page, our teacher's association says it's a working condition issue, and the questions set down on the table include, to paraphrase, do these really have any impact, anyway? A good question, I thought. Since Sharepoint allows site usage data to be stored for each user, to a degree I can measure how many times each person is accesssing the site. Then, I decided to cross-reference that with grades (1st quarter and current) which i'm entering now. Then, I thought, it would be useful to know how many kids were not accessing the internet site because they didn't have the internet at home, so I asked that survey question. A little time in the near future should be spent looking for any meaningful correlation. Then I'll send this back to HHSTA with whatever I've found and suggest ways that people could actually design an intelligent experiment to determine real correlations - looking for kids whose data sets are similar EXCEPT their Sharepoint usage and then track progress. Large numbers make this easier than small numbers.

Interestingly, I also posted some questions to ask students how often they are accessing other resources as well as using the sharepoint site. Actually I already have that info, but it will be interesting to see how reliable they are.

Well, now I've go to set up period 7 and finish that data set. I also want to storyboard my presentation for the board and there are grant deadlines coming up. I have other stuff I'm sure, but I feel a little too sick to worry about it now. I need to stop taking on any projects until I finish a few. Oh, and speaking of finishing... When my students finish the Speak and Speak Project unit, I need to have a good plan for mythology and related skills. Ouch.

Later.



oh - gotta post those quizshow qustion sets, too...