05-23-2009, 05:58 AM
Thanks for all the input everyone. Whatever I do will be strictly for use by my students and their parents as a convenient way to share information about assignments in my classes and to show student work to their families, so I am afraid none of you will ever get to see it, unless I have your kid in my classes.
I feel very strongly about protecting the privacy of my students, even though they often don't know enough yet to care themselves. I just read an article about a twenty something candidate whose election bid was shot down when pictures from his MySpace page were selectively cropped and used to smear him. And we bought a computer from a political science major one time that had a whole bunch of pictures on it which would sink any future career (especially the one of him drunk in a fountain in his underwear groping REALLY young looking two girls). I regularly remind my students that future colleges, employers and now parents of the person they want to date, are doing internet checks to evaluate people. If you wouldn't want your Grandmother to see it don't post it, is my motto!
Carol
I feel very strongly about protecting the privacy of my students, even though they often don't know enough yet to care themselves. I just read an article about a twenty something candidate whose election bid was shot down when pictures from his MySpace page were selectively cropped and used to smear him. And we bought a computer from a political science major one time that had a whole bunch of pictures on it which would sink any future career (especially the one of him drunk in a fountain in his underwear groping REALLY young looking two girls). I regularly remind my students that future colleges, employers and now parents of the person they want to date, are doing internet checks to evaluate people. If you wouldn't want your Grandmother to see it don't post it, is my motto!
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb