Most of you who read blogs by educators are at least passingly familiar with Edcamp, the participant-driven “unconference” for educators based on the BarCamp model. Edcamps typically do not have keynote speakers or even pre-determined workshop schedules; rather, attendees come together first thing in the morning to offer sessions based…
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Re-Statement of Purpose: Why I Blog
Today marks exactly 4 1/2 years since I wrote my first blog post here at Apace of Change. In it, I laid out my initial intentions for this blog: …I want to engage with other educators – not just teachers, but administrators, psychologists, LDTCs, and others in the education field…
Shifting My Sharing
Despite the periodic blog posts heralding the death of RSS, I remain a huge fan of the syndication format (not familiar with RSS? Check the wiki). I have been an avid user of Google Reader for nearly five years now, and I use it daily to aggregate and read, at…
The End of Isolation
In September, I was very proud to have my first contribution to a peer-reviewed journal published. When a friend asked if I had publicized this on my blog, I paused, then realized that in the hubbub of the start of school, I had completely forgotten. So anyway, here goes: in…
Get Your #Chat On
It was a little over a year ago when I wrote about the weekly Twitter-based chat on special ed issues founded by Deven Black and originally moderated by me, #spedchat. While I can take or leave the real-time chat format on Twitter (it can be maddeningly difficult to keep up…