The School Year Ate My Blog

I'm applying the electrodes to this thing -- let's see if I manage to revive it.

Very short post for now.  Just want to enumerate two things:

1. Tonight I watched a recorded webinar on "An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards: Focus on ELA at the Secondary Level" and am very intimidated by the amount of scaffolding my students still need to do work several grade levels lower.
2. Getting ready to use Socrative.com and DropBox as key elements of my APPR observation on Thursday, with the department's new laptop cart.  Crossing fingers that all the relevant servers stay up and running.