Summary: I've been away (for more than 2 months) for several compelling reasons. One, for example, has to do with the preparations for and financing of the wedding of my youngest. Another has to do with the recasting of myself outside of a professorial mode- i.e. what else, after being a "Special Ed Professor" can I/will I do to nurture personal and familial body and soul? More, perhaps, on those topics later. At this moment I want to list several of my seed ideas --- to ensure a more likely later expansion of each.

The list of ideas:

• Goal-Free (or Needs Based) Evaluation
• The Needs of Gifted
• Are Gifted also Autodidacts?
• Deuterolearning: Does High Capacity for Deuterolearning Correlate with High Rate of Classroom Learning? How much? What are Controlling Variables?
• Models/Specs for Needs Based Assessment. Start with N of 1 and Work outward to self-sufficient No Growth communities
• What would be processes and products of a Goal Free/Needs-Based School Assessment?
• CMap -- a free software which will enable collaborative knowledge development as augmented by jointly developed concept maps. See, also, Compendium.
• Ontology Making. At some point the generative power of inspiration alone needs help. An serious effort at ontology building, using software like Protege', will help determine the shape of what is now thought, what is now known, and of gaps that demand development. This knowledge map will likely refuel the inspiration that originally fueled the effort.