Swimming in Quicksand

It was very clear to me at the end of class last Thursday that y'all were feeling a bit overwhelmed with the pace of the course. I understand. We will do our best tonight to ensure that everyone feels comfortable, or at least capable of moving on. We will have our PowerPoint small group presentations, discuss what we saw and evaluate the effectiveness of your rubrics. I will also give you some time to work on your Inspiration/Kidspiration projects. Then we will see how much time we have to begin to brainstorm for our movie projects and/or discuss uploading artifact to Task Stream. I believe that we should be able to postpone the movie project for one day and still be okay!!

If you are struggling with your PowerPoints, I have added a two-slide sample PowerPoint on the assignment page. It may help if you are struggling with exactly what the slides could look like.

As far as the journals go, number 4 will be from the most current issue of L&L. It's even a free download. The article is from the Point/Counterpoint section of the May issue. It's called "Has the Gender Gap Closed?" by Abramson and Stephenson. Even thought the title of the assignment is Journal 1-5, for the summer I really thing that four articles are enough. If you want to do a fifth article for 2 points of extra credit, please talk to me. I changed the due date of all four articles to Saturday, July 29 at 11pm. That should give you more than enough time to catch up.