Dreamwidth? Also, a new school year

[maeve66]

I am typing this in Dreamwidth, which tells me my paid account is lapsing in a week or so. I am not sure why I have paid for DW. I do not think I will continue to do so. I will have fewer icons. So what. I can change them to what I want in LJ. I guess I will continue to post here, just so I have a back-up if the untrustworthy Russian carcass

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[springheel_jack]

> have so far read 336,

wait what

[maeve66]

I knew this would be hard, sigh. I want something that I can influence the looks of -- put up a background, post changing photos of student work, etc -- and ideally something that would allow discussions, even if they were just comment streams like LJ's. I mean, that would be good, to have nested comment streams. I have to be able to moderate and control the discussions, of course, and the students have to be identifiable (within that private community) for safety reasons. I also want to be able to have annotated links to things like BiblioNasium, Lumosity, Dictionary.com (and its vocab game, WordDynamo, etc.) Agh, it all sounds so fun to me. I mean, obvs. kids explore the internet all the time, but apart from geeking out on YouTube and FB, I don't know what educational opportunities they pause on. Why doesn't that one site let you preview how it will look??

[maeve66]

Hahaha... yes, well, I read a lot. And, to be fair, I'm not reading Kant and Hegel, for damn sure. Also: looking at the ratios on Goodreads, I am REreading about 2 to 1, maybe even a bit higher... No, I think it's two to one. 117 books are on a shelf "First Time Reads", and the rest are just on the "2013" shelf. I always knew I read a lot, and this has been an enjoyable way to keep track of it. SO FAR, Amazon has not somehow cannibalized it.

[sabotabby]

That seems like an inhuman amount of work. I'm exhausted right now with a class of 27 (my cap is 22, and I have 20 working computers that the kids can't necessarily log into because the network has been haywire for the first three weeks of school).

So, I sent you what we use for a class website. Hopefully it's helpful.

[springheel_jack]

America!

[mistersmearcase]

Wow, your job just sounds completely brutal. It doesn't sound like there's much they aren't allowed to foist upon you with no notice.