Oh my, a teachers' blog! how cool!
i hope it won't be as schematic as the school. this blog should be a place for us to share ideas and experience... er...AND HAVE FUN! :P
for me, it is the experience that would be more precious over here. why? u see... if u r looking for some factual and carefully constructed theories (which is boooooring)... i believe the library, wikipedia and the books would do the job better in serving us the infos..BUT those precious experiences of yours are much more meaningful to be shared here. experiences in schools are more authentic. they are raw and unique because each one of us will be serving in the god knows where areas where we'll be facing different type of students... various kind of school dramas (i love this one) and different ways of managing our life (that is including financial management, mind u guys!).
so, for the first post of mine, i would like to ask your opinions on this issue that i have been thinking for a long while... here u go..
as you all know, 'almost' everyone of us (im so wanting to say ALL OF US) has AT LEAST a facebook account. well, not a surprise if i said in some areas, almost all of the school kids are involved in this facebook-ing maniac. especially the secondary kids...
so, let say next year u r being posted to this so called urban area where the students do their homework through facebook... my question is, would you as a teacher accept friend invitation from your students? if u said yes, would you be able to control yourselves (for some of us) while commenting and posting your shoutouts. wouldnt it be a violation to our privacy?? in some worst case scenario... arent you affraid of your profile being hacked and the students got your personal details and spread 'em around the school????... if that is so... DO WE ALL NEED TO DELETE OUR FB ACCOUNT???? :-s
i really need to hear from you guys.
6 comments:
hey scha al~! thanks for posting! in my opinion, facebook is another medium that we can use for teaching. but it has its implication.
i think wat we can do to minimize that implication is that we have a different fb account with a different kind of name n make sure it has no relation with our prior account.
yes? no?
hmmm... good idea. but one account is hard enough to handle. how to juggle both? this is such a good issue, put on ur thinkin caps guys ;-)
This is when 3rd party applications came in handy. There are applications such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to help us manage our social sites in a more organized manner.
Or the other account doesnt have to be updated at all, its just a mule to distract out your students.
Or better still, ignore those requests.
Oh come on, Facebook for Homework? That would be another website called Workbook.
ouhh..!ouh..!! lets do that! lets do that kind of website..
-but what i was thinking is that if it were me, i wont be maintaining the other account so much, because i wana lay low with my students. and anyway, it is just for homework in the first place, right..we can stay professional with the other account.
just my opinion, really.
well, i think that you should not add your students to your current FB account, because then the barrier between student and teacher is gone.
I think setting another account is actually a good idea if you want to use the account to find out about your student's interest e.t.c.. but if just wanna "ngada2" add your student to your current account you are using before you are teaching, because you want to be their friends and look cool, i'd think twice.
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good ideas friends
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