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Category Archives: Web 2.0

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 – as to uses for [...]

Posted 02 February 2012 † damian § Professional Development § Reflection § Social Network ‡ Comments (0) °

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 § Twitter ‡ Comments (3) °

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 § Twitter ‡ Comments (0) °

Leadership Day 2011: Networking 101


This is my third year participating in the Leadership Day blog carnival, organized by Dr. Scott McLeod of the University of Kentucky or Iowa State University (depending on which online bio you read), or maybe both; I’m not quite sure.  In 2009, I wrote about my experiences working for an effective school leader, and in 2010 I [...]

Posted 05 August 2011 † damian § Ed Leadership § Professional Development § Social Network ‡ 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 § Twitter ‡ Comments (0) °