[Pibe-division] Fwd: Twitter chat for teachers of the blind

[David Andrews]

Fellow Educators: For some time now I have wanted to get a twitter chat 
going for teachers who work with blind students. Since this month is 
Connected Educator month, I thought now was a good time to make it 
happen. There are dozens of twitter chats for various types of educators 
and perhaps you could say I'm a little jealous that I don't have a set 
time every week that I can get on twitter and connect with fellow TBSs 
to talk about issues important to our work! I wrote a blog post 
introducing the 
idea<http://withoutaclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/calling-all-teachers-of-the-blind-lets-get-connected/> 
to see if there was any interest. I got enough of a response that I feel 
this venture is worth some more effort. My latest blog post: Watch Out 
Twitter, Here We 
Come<http://withoutaclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/watch-out-twitter-here-we-come/> 
is an attempt to figure out some of the details (day/time, hashtag). If 
you are interested in participating please weigh in on these details 
through the polls embedded in the blog post, in the comments of the blog 
post, or shoot me an email. I think a twitter chat is a great way to 
take the awesome connectedness that we already have through PIBE and the 
NFB to a more public venue where other educators can learn along with 
us. Have a great start to your school year! Natalie Shaheen @nlshaheen