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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 § Social Network § 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 § Social Network ‡ Comments (9) °

Twitter’s Identi.ca Crisis


I’ve been actively involved on Twitter for almost a year now, and I have a lot to thank it for.  I’ve been introduced to some fantastic folks via Twitter, some of whom have even made guest appearances in my classes.  I’ve developed a PLN around Twitter that has heavily informed not only how I use [...]

Posted 07 July 2008 † damian § Professional Development § Reflection § Social Network § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (3) °

TTP 5: The Twitteracy Project is Dead, Long Live the Twitteracy Project


The verdict is in: this past semester’s Twitteracy Project was a bust. To put it succinctly, I think the two main roadblocks were 1) the technology at home and 2) student motivation. Many kids reported problems even being able to log in to Twitter from home, let alone send messages. I suggested they upgrade IE, [...]

Posted 29 January 2008 † damian § Social Network § Twitteracy Project ‡ Comments (8) °

Money, Meet Mouth: Announcing “The Twitteracy Project”


I have decided to implement Twitter as a regular feature in one of my English classes this coming year. It’s still very much in the planning stages now, but I hope to have a full outline of my thought process, intended goals/objectives, and initial instructional implementation up here by the end of the weekend or [...]

Posted 24 August 2007 † damian § Twitteracy Project ‡ Comments (5) °