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…
Category: Twitter
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…
A Very Special #SpedChat
It hardly seems like it’s been over eight months since Deven Black and I hosted the first #SpedChat discussion of special education issues on Twitter. Since then, the weekly Tuesday night chat (8:30pm EST/EDT; please join us!) has developed a core community of educators and parents, given birth to a…
Please Join Us For #spedchat
And thus was born #spedchat. Please join us on Twitter on Tuesday, 31 August at 8:30pm Eastern. We hope to make this a regular weekly event for educators (of all disciplines, not just special ed teachers), parents, students, and all other interested parties to discuss issues pertinent to special education….