Poor workability with dial up and firefox

Well, this page finally loaded, so now I'll go back and see if the previous one actually posted. This is a very mickey mouse way of doing things, and for the majority of my students who have dial up connections at home, I think using this way of posting information would be as frustrating and valueless for my students, as it is for me. Not everyone, including myself, can afford $60.00/month for high speed internet access, so blogger will work properly.
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Who else is experiencing this?

I don't have the luxery of high speed internet at home. I don't know if you are aware of this-but blogspot doesn't work worth beans with firefox on a dial up connection. I can't even get any of my pages on blogger to completely load. It stops loading before finishing, so I don't know if what i blog is even getting posted.

rubistar

Rubistar rubric generator. Have used this to compare to my own. Don't like it-but now you can create your own rubrics based on their grid template. The big restriction is still that you can only create four rows of rubrics. Mine usually are 8-10 seperate criteria. Check it out. It may work for you.

library book checkout

Today I learned how to check books out through the library system for spps. This should make tracking books easier, and especially collecting for damaged or missing books. Thanks Janet.

Moving forward in English

Last week we counted books, got a list of who has what books in what rooms, and began creating an English folder for the senior high English Dept. for common assessments, lessons, etc. to help create more aligned curriculum. Hopefully, this will make things easier for new teachers like myself.

LA Dept. to put lessons on building server

At last week's LA meeting we decided on a group PDP to formalize the course offerings at each grade level so as to standardize curriculum. The best part about it was that we agreed to put all of the materials on our building server so that any of the English teachers in the building could access lessons, vocabulary, tests, projects, etc. I hope this really takes hold. I think it would be an invaluable tool. It would provide us with multiple approaches to each piece of literature, and a framework from which everyone could work.