It’s 1AM, and I’m done. I did it. I finally fished the massive edit of the textbook. I made a few mistakes along the way… got eyes and ambition greater than my time or ability. Ended up having to cut some parts that I had a lot of fun making.
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Well, What a Fun Month!
I am being facetious. This month has been terrible. TL;DR: Shit happened. Class is starting up again where it all fell apart 2 weeks ago. Grammas are ending up in the hospital and it looks like their ends are drawing near – for one of my best friends and my
Coding Progress and New Lesson Numbers
Here’s my progress in updating the lessons and the homework. Added About Fan-Made Words Updated: Intro, Chapters one, three, four, five, and six, lessons (and homework assignments for) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, and 6.1. Since there’s a new chapter, Intermediate Students are now on 6.1. There are new homework
Interlinear Glosses
One of the cool things that this book writing project has caused is that there is a WordPress pluggin for writing interlinear glosses! What are those? It’s best to show you: “I might kill you.” This will let me teach Sindarin syntax much more effectively! This is just one of
Fall 2016 New Class Full Again, and Book Progress
That didn’t take long, did it? Once again – If you’re a returning student, you’re free to register again without worrying about taking someone else’s place. The 15 person limit is for new students only. Progress on making the textbook print ready is going a little slower than I’d like.
New PM System
In one week, we’ll been switching over to a new PM system for turning in homework. The one installed right now is no longer being updated, and therefore is getting more and more buggy. So, Saturday next week, I’ll be installing a new system. This means that all messages, uploads,
Class Progress Report – 13th Week
Tomorrow, registration reopens! This week was chapter 5.2! What a difficult one to end the semester on! Many people are still finishing it – don’t worry, finish away. If you fell behind, now is your chance to catch up! I’d like everyone to be done with chapter 5.2 before September
Class Progress Report – 12th Week
This week is Chapter 5.1. Most of the students are now graduated to being Intermediate students (you can see if you’re on the list here)! This lesson, most people had a pretty easy time with the plural forms. The ones that caused some confusion was the Archaic versus later Sindarin
Class Progress Report – 11th Week
Only a handful of people have attempted chapter 4.2, but most have opted out. That’s my fault, as I fell behind in homework correcting and that meant people were rushed this week. Very, very few errors. The errors that I’ve found were more like simple spelling errors or typos. A
Class Progress Report – 10th Week
No one else dropped out this week! Chapter 4.1 is quite simple, and a good chance for people to review old material. This assignment took people longer than other assignments, but there were a lot fewer errors in it, even though the translations were quite complex. I think it’s because