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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 last count, nearly 200 blogs, [...]

Posted 11 January 2012 † damian § Organization § School Psychology § Social Network § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (3) °

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 “The End of Isolation”, my [...]

Posted 07 November 2011 † damian § Damian's Favorites § Professional Development § Research § Social Network ‡ Comments (0) °

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 with if too many people [...]

Posted 01 September 2011 † damian § Social Network § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (0) °

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 wiki of special ed resources [...]

Posted 05 May 2011 † damian § Social Network § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (0) °

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 § Social Network § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (7) °