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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. We follow in the tradition [...]

Posted 25 August 2010 † damian § Reflection § Twitter § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (7) °

Not For Sale


Before about 20 minutes ago, I’d never heard of Kevin O’Keefe.  My introduction to him came via this blog post, which came up when I Googled an excerpt from an email I received earlier this week.  Based solely on that one blogpost, the only evaluation of Mr. O’Keefe I can give you is about his [...]

Posted 22 May 2010 † damian § Reflection § Twitter ‡ Comments (9) °

I Get Around


As is often the case with bloggers, the more active I get offline (or IRL, to those in the know), the less active I tend to be online, or at least on time- and thought-intensive pursuits like blogging.  As usual, I have a few post ideas brewing, but at the moment I’m lacking the time [...]

Posted 14 March 2010 † damian § Ed Leadership § Professional Development § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (0) °

Exhaling at EduCon


Note: The bulk of this was written at nearly 11:30pm on Saturday, 30 January 2010, upon arriving home from EduCon 2.2.  I just wanted to get these thoughts down before I went to bed and lost the feeling I had at the time; “post-production” tweaking was done with the benefit of a clearer head and [...]

Posted 31 January 2010 † damian § Damian's Favorites § Educon § Professional Development § Reflection ‡ Comments (6) °

Open Letter to a New Teacher


The strangest, albeit pretty wonderful, thing happened to me the other day.  I was helping clean up from dinner when my cell phone rang.  When my wife answered and then handed it to me, the Caller ID gave a Texas number.  I know very few people in Texas, and this number didn’t belong to any [...]

Posted 18 June 2009 † damian § Damian's Favorites § Professional Development ‡ Comments (16) °