The Blogosphere

Blogging is a way of life for many people, and I have now decided to incorporate this layer of the vaunted WWW into my professional life. I had been keeping a log of my education musings for sometime, and to the right is a link to an archive of my previous postings. It had been long long time since I updated this, so forgive me, but my goal is to redouble my efforts to keep track of the things going on at Southern Durham High and of my thoughts on the changes afoot at my home school. I am slowly migrating all my previous blogs to this format, and if you want to comment on what I have written, sign up at blogger.com, for free, and contribute your thoughts and ideas. The WWW provides a rich avenue for a vital exchange of ideas, which is something I always encourage in my classroom. Because as I have always said my students, "Without Criticism there would be no Progress." Thanks for visiting. Let's hope I can muster up some energy to write more about Southern's travails. Rest assured there is a lot to comment on.

Performance Assessment Units

As I consider new ways to examine students' level of competency in the German language, I reexamine something I studied a few years ago, the Performance Assessment Unit, or PAU. This website on Performance Assessment Units has reignited my interest in alternative assessments, especially in German class.