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We Are All Individuals!

In my last post here I talked about reaching out, and meeting others. In that I pointed out two contradictory things, by reaching out you can find other like minded people, but you can also find different perspectives. Really, you never know what you might get. There are cyclical complaints about group-think in edublogging circles [...]

Expanding your network…

Being the parent of a child with autism makes you a little more aware of eye contact in conversation. I’m noticing some interesting patterns at NECC that say a lot about how I socialize. First, there are times when it has become painful for me to make and maintain eye contact. That has to be [...]

Mobile Site for NECC

Just a quick note to let folks know there is a new mobi-fied or mobile ready site with information handy for NECC 2009. This is based on Tony Vincent’s work last year. It can be found at:
http://NECC2009.wirenode.mobi
This is my own private effort and largely for my convenience, but if you have a link you want [...]

Irony, Idiom, and Symbolism in Visual Images

I’ve been pondering visual images in education lately not in the straight forward way, using images to give information that clarifies things, but as something more complicated. It all started last summer with the flap over the New Yorker cover cartoon that depicted then candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as a Muslim and [...]