something sort of cool and something REALLY cool

The sort of cool thing is this: I finally got a chance to go through all of the mounds of paperwork I've collected over the course of the semester yesterday, and I found all kinds of formerly important notes and lists on slips of scrap paper. Some of them are quite cryptic, like this one:


Took me a minute to realize what I was doing here.

answer: checking a project I'd designed against Bloom's Taxonomy to make sure that I'd given roughly equal attention to assessment of work in each of the cognitive domains -- and adding on paper numbers that I should be able to add in my head

And the REALLY cool thing? Melissa, my good friend and thoughtful blog commenter, is coming to Chicago in March!