quatchi: fta: It was intended to be seen by a personal friend but instead was inadvertently posted publicly, he said.

What a totally retarded reason to ruin a decades long career.

This is why there are no nude pics of me in existence in any format.

/Yeah, the whole "uglier than sin" thing factors there too.

You sound boring.

There's far too many nekkid pics of me out there which I'm sure could be used against me in the event of me becoming prime minister. Given the unlikeliness of this occurring though, I'd say that the gamble has paid off, as the fun I've had has been worth it. I'm sure no one in this thread knows about this sort of thing though...

miss diminutive: Under school district policy, teachers are allowed to "friend" students on Facebook, but as far as he could tell, Colpitts said Withee had no Oxford Hills School District students as "friends" on his page.

This just seems like a recipe for disaster. I'm not a teacher, but why would you ever need to be facebook friends with your students? What function could it serve that couldn't be just as easily be done through email?

It makes communicating with classes as a whole, sharing information, answering questions in a way that everyone can see the answer etc. much easier. Since so many students are already using facebook, and it already has the features for such community sharing and message boards, it's much easier and has higher participation than setting your own mailing lists ang group discussion boards.

With Facebook's privacy settings, it's pretty easy to separate your personal, professional, and public lives. My students only see what I specifically allow them to see, and they don't get to see any aspects of my personal life. I don't get why so few people understand that Facebook is capable of this.

In short, if used properly, Facebook is actually a useful and valuable tool for communicating with students and parents. Sometimes I think G+ has a better interface for this with its circles, but none of my students use it, so it's a no go from the start.

/teacher

He made an innocent mistake. One person noticed.
He should not have resigned.
His resignation should not have been accepted.

The woman said her son played football for Withee and looked up to the coach. She said Withee's actions last week completely changed her perspective of him as a coach and mentor and left her feeling let down as a parent. Needs to get a life, and the Principal should be backing his teacher..

miss diminutive: but I'm not sure why it's necessary.

It's not necessary. Simply useful and convenient. :)

Aren't questions and material covered in class, where everyone can see the results and processes anyway? Since this isn't college there isn't really as much of an issue as people skipping classes and requiring follow-up information.

Well, yes and no. Sometimes there isn't enough time in class to cover things, so we have to give homework and assigned reading and such. Having a convenient way to help with that outside of the classroom and not in person is a big help. Especially as a biology teacher, because over 3 years (here in Thailand), we cover a lot of material, and there definitely isn't enough time in class to do it effectively.

Also, with Facebook making it so easy to connect and share info, it is a great way for me to share extra stuff that might be of interest to my students. I read a lot of biology blogs and research papers and such in my own time, and I like to be able to link to interesting articles that are related to what we are studying in class, so that any students can read them if they want. Yes, it's strictly optional, and probably very few students read the stuff I link (I also make such links visible to everyone else; in this case my personal interests in biology overlap with both my personal life and my professional life), but still, it's there. Given all of the material I have to teach in class, I don't always have time to bring up the interesting stuff I come across about modern biological research.

Facebook makes a good platform for doing such things. Like I said, Google+ would probably also make a good platform (probably an even better one, because a lot of the biologists and science writers I read are rather active on G+, and if my students were as well, they'd more easily be able to ask questions directly to such folks who are actually in the thick of such research). But, none of my students use it or even seem interested in using it, and I'm pretty sure it would be a bit over the line to demand they make an account as part of my class. Maybe in a university setting, but not in a high school setting.

It just seems to me that if a teacher starts posting school-related answers to problems on facebook then they're just doing more work that they aren't being paid for. If students begin to expect that teaching will happen online as well as in class then it I can see it becoming a problem. Teachers are already spending time outside of class preparing lesson plans and marking, why add more to the list?

Well, I can't speak for other teachers in other countries, but if I were in it for the money or concerned only with the time I'm paid for, then a.) I wouldn't be a teacher, because it's a shiatty job for that kind of thing, and b.) I wouldn't be doing it here in Thailand, where they pay, while fine for Thai standards, is basically shiat (my yearly income before taxes is about $15,500 US... I'm definitely not in it for the money).

I put in all of the extra effort because I love teaching and I want to do my very best to make sure my students learn the material as well as they can and actually understand it as much as they can, so that they will be able to use it in their futures and perhaps make a difference in their fields. It's probably cliche and idealistic, but that is why I teach. That is what is important to me.

Also, the time I put into it is completely optional. If a student asks me a question on Facebook, I can always let it wait until I see them in school (usually, I'll post a quick reply saying so). So, with that in mind, it helps make me more flexible with my teaching, rather than less.

Anyway, like I said at the start of this post, it's definitely not necessary. It's just useful and convenient, and in some ways it helps me be a better teacher. YMMV, of course. :)

FTFA: At least one parent, on the other hand, disagreed with classifying the action as a mistake. The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said she and her family were extremely disappointed in Withee's actions.

The woman said her son played football for Withee and looked up to the coach. She said Withee's actions last week completely changed her perspective of him as a coach and mentor and left her feeling let down as a parent.

Twat must be a farking Mennonite

Fubegra: Until they revamp their privacy settings for the umpteenth time. Whoops!

That's what people say every time Facebook changes something, but so far, with every change, they have never set anything to public that I had previously set to private or only viewable to certain lists, and they have never opted me in to any new features. I've been watching closely every time too, because I keep expecting to get bit. But so far nothing.

Either I'm doing something right, or I'm just getting lucky and not having the same shiat happen that other people do. :-/

Liked my headline(s) better.

miss diminutive: SkunkWerks: That describes about 90% of people using Facebook, if the stories hold true. From what I can see, most people using it are apparently not computer-literate enough to use even simpler "pieces of shiat" that have been around about five times longer than Facebook, else they wouldn't have a need for it Facebook in the first place.

90% might be a little high, but when idiots do screw up it makes for some good times.

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/hot like a love cave between the legs

Tracey's hot. Stoopid but hawt.

Great.

Nude photos of Coach McGuirk.

Almost as appalling as the boudoir photos of Jon Benjamin used to advertise Jon Benjamin has a Van.

what has been seen can not be unseen: http://sharetv.org/shows/jon_benjamin_has_a_van

miss diminutive: /hot like a love cave between the legs

Why does it say she's engaged if she's going on dates and having sex with a man for the first time in months?

The only photos I've wanted from past g/f's are nice pretty pics of them in sun dresses. Nude photos only lead to trouble.