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As part of an assignment for an upcoming women's career seminar, I was given a link to a set of tests for implicit bias (when you have usually unconscious associations between two concepts, or between one concept and something positive or negative). Although my assignment didn't involve it, I took their test on disability and implicit bias. ( Read more... )

A few months ago we talked on this comm about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Today, I'm thinking that webinars could be another crip-friendly way to learn and teach. In fact I think the teacher-training course I quit, because it wasn't accessible, could have been taught better by using webinars. In another context, the only webinar I tried to ( Read more... )

The teacher-training course that I started, that didn't work out because of a lack of crip accommodations, is all over. Even the shouting. Well in fact, there was no shouting but there were a few attempts to blame me. A few attempts to make me cough up the course fee. I paid nothing, ignoring the £500 invoice ( Read more... )