Comments on: Dear Students, Pre-Service Teachers, and Educators, http://scottsfloyd.com/2009/02/28/dear-students-pre-service-teachers-and-educators/ my ideas, thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned in education Thu, 06 May 2010 14:43:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: woscholar http://scottsfloyd.com/2009/02/28/dear-students-pre-service-teachers-and-educators/comment-page-1/#comment-240 woscholar Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:35:12 +0000 http://scottsfloyd.edublogs.org/2009/02/28/dear-students-pre-service-teachers-and-educators/#comment-240 Yikes! You would think folks would use a little more common sense. Thanks for sharing that one. My hope is that this post will help my staff and students from making similar mistakes. Yikes! You would think folks would use a little more common sense. Thanks for sharing that one. My hope is that this post will help my staff and students from making similar mistakes.

]]> By: Beth Still http://scottsfloyd.com/2009/02/28/dear-students-pre-service-teachers-and-educators/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Beth Still Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:25:13 +0000 http://scottsfloyd.edublogs.org/2009/02/28/dear-students-pre-service-teachers-and-educators/#comment-239 Scott, What a timely post. I am starting a new quarter on Monday and part of that class will include a section on creating a good online presence. In fact, I am using Set Godin's blog post that you quoted with my students. It is so important for students to understand that everything they do online is permanent. A teaching moment presented itself this past week. I happened to be on Facebook and I ended up on the profile of a local teacher. I found a picture of her flipping off the camera. I was shocked! She has over 400 friends on Facebook, many of whom are current students. My students were speechless. (That never happens!) Some of them thought it was cool, but most of them thought it was pretty tasteless for this teacher to post a picture of herself doing something like that. They said the expect teachers to hold themselves to a higher standard. I wish our community would hold our educators to a higher standard, but it appears that this is not a big deal. Scott,
What a timely post. I am starting a new quarter on Monday and part of that class will include a section on creating a good online presence. In fact, I am using Set Godin’s blog post that you quoted with my students. It is so important for students to understand that everything they do online is permanent.

A teaching moment presented itself this past week. I happened to be on Facebook and I ended up on the profile of a local teacher. I found a picture of her flipping off the camera. I was shocked! She has over 400 friends on Facebook, many of whom are current students. My students were speechless. (That never happens!) Some of them thought it was cool, but most of them thought it was pretty tasteless for this teacher to post a picture of herself doing something like that. They said the expect teachers to hold themselves to a higher standard. I wish our community would hold our educators to a higher standard, but it appears that this is not a big deal.

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