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It’s my 1st First Amend­ment Fri­day, a day to cel­e­brate intel­lec­tual free­dom, the most impor­tant Amend­ment to the Con­sti­tu­tion, and teens’ right to read. What bet­ter way to kick it off than by shar­ing this mes­sage from our firends at Ran­dom House: Banned Books Week is Sep­tem­ber 27 through Octo­ber 4 It’s time to cel­e­brate the free­dom …

Eight years ago–almost to the day–I was fea­tured in a New York Times arti­cle about using 3-D envi­ron­ments in online classes. Even had my ugly mug pho­tographed by Brownie Har­ris, the man who took the famous pic­ture of JFK, Jr. Some time, I’ll tell you what it’s like get­ting your pic­ture taken in com­plete dark­ness …