Vacation Right Around Corner

I am going on vacation tomorrow--flying out to CA for a friend's wedding in Yosemite Park!

It's a pretty busy day today, wrapping things up before I'm gone.

One of the things I am wrapping up is the new Community Stories page the the ReadWriteThink.org site. What's new about it? We changed the layout, made it a little more friendly and story-writer focused, and we added the Story Highlights, which displays pictures and videos from the classroom.

This new layout was a pretty big project. It started during a group meeting we had last summer, when our NCTE team members came out to IRA headquarters. The concept discussion started then. We planned the layout in the following months. Then we got the designers involved. Then there was the testing.

Big project, and it is coming to a close. The page is up and working, and we received some great stories with excellent highlights showing teachers using ReadWriteThing with students in their classroom. The new stories have been a good way to continue the testing of the process--still ironing out some kinks, which is what I was working on today.

Another little wrap-up for the week was finalizing the most recent Chatting About Books monthly podcast. My involvement is minimal, but it is usually the last step--adding the book cover images. I finished that up this morning, and the new podcast should be live tomorrow.

That is a little glimpse into what this editor has been up to today, besides e-mails and meetings and debates about proper grammar. Yes, that last one is true; some of the other editors and I had a very lovely discussion about grammar rules today--we were all in agreement over what was correct; however,  none of us could give the rule as to why it was correct.

I'll leave you with the same question, then, and see if I get any responses in the comments.

Which sentence is correct and why? What is the rule?

"I am suppose to go to the store."

"I am supposed to go to the store."

And I shall be back the week after next, when I return from California.

Wes