When all the back posts (almost 6,000) and comments (44,000) are protected, the appearance of the blog will return to normal. We can only protect 250 at a time so it won’t be done for awhile. But in the meantime we can read new stuff and some comments. I know it’s weird. Give it a week and it will be back to normal again.
At this point we have a serious backlog of PLC articles. I will post them when I can.
On a personal note, and I touched on this last week, I feel that I have found – for me in my own CI classroom anyway – in the “Invisibles” concept what may be the biggest breakthrough in TPRS ever – no hyperbole there.
When we start a story with “Class there was a (insert a character/clay model that they created/own/drew on a portable whiteboard)” instead of (a boy/girl), it ratchets thing up in a bodacious way. Then we go to “where”, then “with whom”, then we get a problem and boom off we go much faster and with much more student involvement than the old way.
I just want to say that here again because I didn’t see a lot of discussion about it when I published that article two weeks ago. I know Alisa is looking at it. Trust me, it’s knocking my class up about fifty levels from the kind of TPRS I used to do. I will present it at iFLT and Agen.