Speaking of accessibility, we are big fans of the film Crip Camp about a camp for teens with disabilities in the 1960s whose alumni sparked a landmark disability rights movement.
In addition to being an amazing documentary in its own right, Crip Camp puts its money where its mouth is with great accessibility options:
Trailer with Audio Description;
Full Film with Open Captions, Closed Captions and subtitles, in multiple languages.
We had the privilege of creating the official Crip Camp curriculum guide and discussion guide. They are free for everyone from our library, if you'd like to share this film with your students, community group, film club, etc.
Surprised no one has suggested Knowledge Commons https://hcommons.social as an instance that is a haven for scholarly people. Perhaps more in higher education, but K12 educators would be welcome and well taken care of with the good moderation. Formerly Humanities Commons, it has expanded into STEM education and other fields to be more inclusive. Based at Michigan State University, it has government grants and other support to sustain its services.
I also recommend Knowledge Commons for blogging or maintaining a free Website. I was just starting to discuss research repositories and criticizing Academia Edu at https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty/112609326085901837 without having space to suggest open access alternatives like Knowledge Commons. Its repository welcomes teaching materials, syllabi, and all sorts of genres, to which I've been happy to contribute, at https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty
Parent or teacher interested in a Covid safe school?! Centered in disability justice. One is forming in MA/RI, location TBD. Email for more info or with questions!
10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the #teaching hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?
Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.
@brianb
Hi Brian. Not sure how #chemistry specific
you are hoping your community to be? Albeit, you might want to check out who is following
the @edutooters group.
Also, you can have a look to see who is participating in Miguels education community @mguhlin
In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.