Blogging – How It Works…

What is a blog?... I should stop here and say that blogging on this topic, Special Needs Education, is hard for me. Not emotional difficult, but technically and legally problematic.You see, I hold in my keeping the privacy of a dozen or so small and fragile souls... (to read more click on the link above).

February 26 - What is a blog? The term comes from the compound word Web log. Take off the "we-" and combine the syllables. You get "blog." One definition I saw says that it is "an online journal."

I should stop here and say that blogging on this topic, Special Needs Education, is hard for me. Not emotional difficult, but technically and legally problematic. You see, I hold in my keeping the privacy of a dozen or so small and fragile souls this year - all of them valuable human beings. Morally, they are not mine to share with you; but it is difficult to talk about MY EXPERIENCE with this field without talking about them. Technically (and legally), FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, prevents me from compromising many details about my students. You understand my dilemma...

Blogs are supposed to be personal. And because I teach, a lot of the news I see on education IS personal to me. When I read about pay plans in states like Florida that strike me as silly, and perhaps offensive, it's personal. I may decide it's worth writing about because the information is important to others. But my ideas about it are personal and my interest in it is personal.

So almost everything you see under "Bulletins" on my page is a blog. It's there because it struck me PERSONALLY as important to talk about - important to me as a professional and/or as a caring human being.

Life, after all, is personal...