What a week!

  This week I conferenced with each student about his/her Genius project. Most of the students are excited about their projects and even expressed gratitude for the opportunity to have more freedom in their education.  Although almost all the students are diligently working on their projects some are not keeping up with their blogs so I reminded them that this is a writing class so the grade they get from the project will be based solely on their writing.  This means that a students’ project may not go at all as he planned but if he does his writing well he could get an A. Besides meeting with the 17 students for 30 minutes each, I have also had problems with my own blog.

I needed to add two addresses to my blog but when I did it changed all the addresses so they no longer worked. Mr. Caples (Math instructor and IT extraordinaire) worked with me for an hour to try to resolve the issue. We finally got the addresses to work but now they look bad because it changed the background color on 16 of the addresses!

On a good note, I did get our venue finalized for the Genius Hour presentations. We will be presenting our projects to the public on Tuesday, May 1 at 6:00 in the evening.  Take Root Café in town has graciously opened their theater for us. Next I must locate a mic system and a projector we can use that evening.

Picture by Kristen Druckenbrodt @ Hot Digital Dawg