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Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts

HELP Needed: Feedburner NOT Delivering Posts to Subscribers

My last two blog posts were not delivered to my subscribers.  I use Feedburner, the Google feed delivery, but neither my email subscribers or my RSS feed subscribers seem to have received my last two posts.

I would appreciate any advice you can give me!

Tech Update & Why We Write The Special Education Law Blog

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The Landing - Sydney Cove 26 January 1788 created by Special Education Students Throughout the ACT (Photo credit: ArchivesACT)













One of our goals in creating this blog was to provide both discussion of special education law topics from an impartial perspective and to provide resources where interested persons can find more information.

The impartial perspective is very important.  I have never represented or advised parents or school personnel on a special ed matter.  I am a hearing officer and mediator for a number of states.  I also advise states and train their personnel.  That is why when parents or school personnel contact me, I cannot help them.  They generally understand.  The disclaimer on the blog explains this point in more detail.

We also offer a lot of resources for parents, teachers (both regular ed and special ed), principals, school psychologists, hearing officers, mediators, complaint investigators, monitors, special ed directors, academics, advocates, SEA personnel, LEA personnel, paraprofessionals, lawyers (both parent and school district) as well as other special ed law junkies of all types.

Om the left-hand side of the blog, you can sign up for a free subscription to our blog.  You can choose between receiving posts by email or in a reader by RSS feed.  You can also get a widget to insert this blog directly into your own website or blog.Subscriptions are important because numbers have meaning in the blogosphere.  Please sign up for a subscription.  Thanks.

Also on the left hand side are a series of you tube videos of interviews of me on dispute resolution topics by Marshall Peter, Director of CADRE.(Many other videos and resources pertaining to special ed dispute resolution are available on the CADRE website - there is a link under resources.)

Of the spin-off groups that we have created, the LinkedIn group is the most successful with over 5,500 members and lots of active discussions.  Check it out here.  The Facebook group was archived because our thousands of members did not obsessive provide status updates regarding sitting on the porch or what they had for lunch.  The group still exists, but members have to reapply because of the corporatization of evil Facebook overlords.

Many readers follow our headlines on twitter.  Check out our twitter activity here. Other readers follow our headlines on our Tumblr mini-blog here.

There are many links to websites and other important blogs on the lefthand side of the blog.  Also the search bar is just for this blog. So if you are interested in one topic, say bullying, just type it into the search bar and you can find all of our posts on that topic.

There are many more valuable resources on the blog.  Please explore it and take advantage of these other sites. Also, we are always looking to improve. If you know of other impartial resources, please suggest them.  

In the meantime, we appreciate your support.
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More Honors for This Blog

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We are gratified by the response to this blog.  We have won some impressive honors. In 2008 we won first place in the education blog category of the Bloggers Choice Awards. We have won the prestigious Blog of the Day award.  We are also listed on the blogrolls of a number of highly respected blogs.  And we are found on some amazing tweet lists and facebook pages.  

Recently we were listed on another list of top blogs.  This time we were honored to be among the Fifty Best Blogs For special Needs Teachers.  Here is a link.  We are again overwhelmed by the great reaction we continue to receive.

But as always the very best reward we receive for this blog is the impressive array of special education stakeholders who subscribe to this blog and  who read our posts.  We are pleased that you find the resources that we share useful.  Thank you!
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We're No. 2; Special Education Law Blog Named Second Best Special Education Blog

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A recent list of the top 40 Special Education Blogs ranks this blog as number 2! As the old television ad says, we try harder. But seriously, this is another big honor for this blog.

Here is the list. There are some amazing blogs on the list. We are honored to be named number two. You may want to check out the others.

If you like special education blogs, some of my favorites are listed on the lefthand side of the blog. There is also a widget with the headlines of the current CEC smartbrief and a link to the Blognet News Education News.

Another source for education information is the Blogger's Choice Awards. This blog was named Best Education Blog in the 2008 Blogger's Choice Awards. The website lists all kinds of blogs by category. You can also get to the website by going to the lefthand side of the blog and vote for us in the 2010 Blogger's Choice Awards.

I'm always impressed by the wide variety of special ed stakeholders who read this blog. Thank you and please keep reading.


Censorship & The Blogosphere

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OK that's an interesting topic, but how could censorship be related to special education law or to this blog you ask? I know this may at first blush sound like a stretch, but wait.

Many of our readers work for governments- state agencies, school districts, and various others. One new reader just told me that she tried to subscribe to this blog, but her government computer refused to permit her to subscribe to us because it was a blog.

This type of government censorship truly upsets me. Not all blogs contain pornographic material! Some, we hope, provide information and resources that are difficult to find elsewhere. At this point in our history, a lot of important information is accessible only through blogs. To ban all government employees from subscribing to blogs is absurd.

The First Amendment could apply here. The concept underlying the free speech notion is that free-play in the marketplace of ideas leads to the truth. Government restrictions inherently frustrate this policy.

The extent to which our sources of news has changed became evident to me earlier this week. I was in a hotel watching one of the "morning news" programs. These used to be places to get a good dose of news. I watched while I was getting dressed and saw no news whatsoever. I saw a cooking segment and heard the "news anchors" talk to a gossip columnist about Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan. It is no wonder, people have turned to the internet for news- television is officially a wasteland.

Given the changes in how we as a society receive news, it is even more important that governments ease outdated computer censorship rules. If you read this blog and you work for a government- any kind of government- please try to take a free subscription to the blog (Click on the link on the lefthand side and then respond to the email to activate the subscription.) If you get a censorship block, please request that this site be officially authorized. (We're just not that controversial!) Also please tell me whether you have been blocked and what happens with the authorization process. My goals are to strike down ridicules censorship and to ensure that the information and resources we provide can be used by the maximum number of people.

Power to the bloggers! Bloggers of the world unite...! (OK I'm out of catchy slogans, but you get the idea!)