Category Archives: Web 2.0

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 [...]

Beginning Blogging


My blog turns three years old today!  In the last few days, I’ve been re-reading some of my older blog posts (check out some of my personal favorites), which was an interesting exercise for me, now that I have an established body of writing in this space and a little bit of emotional and chronological [...]

Progress Report: One Year Later


Last July I described how I used online mindmapping program MindMeister to organize my then-overwhelming mishmosh of personal and professional goals neatly into academic years.  Now that the 2009-2010 academic year is drawing to a close, I thought I’d publicly review (because I’m nothing if not accountable) whether or not I achieved each of my [...]

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 [...]

The Fine Print


My kids’ daycare sends home flyers every so often advertising this program or that that our kids can participate in beyond what the normal tuition fee covers – pull-out classes for music, gymnastics; that sort of thing.  The other day a flyer came home advertising a dance class.  There was nothing unusual about it, but [...]