I’ve decided to hold back new posts, except bios, until further notice to do some housekeeping, namely:
1. I need to go through and make sure that only paid members are reading here. I do that about once a year. In the next few days I will publish a list of all paid members with their emails. Please alert me to any errors. When that is published, I will then go through and see who has submitted a bio, highlighting those who owe us one in red. In November, the red names will be deleted from both the PayPal list of active members and the PLC itself. When that step is done, we can know with relative certainty that we are back to the level of safety that we started out with, one that we have all agreed is necessary for the group to speak freely here about anything.
2. Of course, the recent issue of the lack of security on the privacy settings here, due to our ongoing software changes in an effort to add a forum to the site, must be resolved as soon as possible. That fix cannot happen soon enough. I’ll let you know when that is finally done. If we continue to have trouble, we will have to go back to the old format and try again with the forum some other time.
3. We just have to have a primer on comprehensible input as per chill’s article last week. I want it to be in the form of a hard link for instant access and printing and handing to anybody who actually wants to open up their mind to the new ideas we espouse. Nobody has yet stepped forward to do it, and all we have now are a lot of suggestions. I will do it, but it will have to wait for the updating of the membership list and the checking on bios to be done. Hint.
Stuff like this happens with active web sites like ours, so it’s to be expected. There are now 4,049 articles to read dating back to 2007, not to mention 23,685 comments, so it’s not like group members won’t have anything to read while the queue is being held up (which itself contains more than 100 articles waiting to be published but which I hold back to keep from flooding the site with too much information).
Notes:
1. There are no more yearly paid by school memberships. Too much trouble for me to keep up with. Sorry. If you currently have a membership paid by your school and your name is not on the final published list of active members with completed bios, it’s perhaps because your membership elapsed even if your bio is in (many elapsed in September).
2. When the final list of paid members is published, with all those who have not submitted bios deleted from it, group members can read without those nagging concerns about who is reading. That is a worthy goal, given the nature of our work right now, and as I said I have postponed all new posts until that list is finalized.
3. If you want to keep reading articles, the best way to access information you are currently working on in your own teaching practice is through the categories.