some of the topics addressed in tonight's class motivated me to remove my comedy videos. i figured, if some lady gets canned because she has non sexual pictures of herself in a bathing suit on the internet...i'm screwed.
it`s not to say that i am the edgiest comedian ever, in fact i am far from it. but i could definitely see some administrative people having a thing or two to say about what i do on stage in my spare time. it`s not for the whole family.
As much as i disagree with the idea of employers anonymously keeping tabs on people`s electronic lives, there is really no way to get around it. if you`re not doing anything wrong you can`t get caught.
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Hi Graeme! It's unfortunate that people should have to censor themselves so carefully for fear of losing their jobs, but I guess at the same time I can see why schools would want to keep tabs on what kind of people they are employing. Personally, I'm completely boring, so I don't think anything I have online would put me in that position. I also felt a bit weird about the videos of the kids online, but maybe we don't need to be as paranoid as NBC Dateline tells us to be. It is pretty cool that parents or relatives can see what's going on in the classroom, especially if they aren't able to participate at the school as much as they'd like to.
P.S. Take it from a former World of Warcraft player, Cheetos and computers don't mix... that orange stuff gets in everywhere...
I'm sitting on the fence here. I'm not looking forward to going on Facebook and getting rid of every picture of me holding a beer, etc but know it is something I am going to have to do. It is frustrating to know that part of my life has to be censored, but at the same time I remember when I was in highschool, I saw a teacher drunk at Mosaic once and thought it was the craziest thing ever... not bad, just odd. I'm trying to think how I would have reacted to seeing pictures of that night on a website the next day.
Touche...good idea dealing with professionalism..It's kind of funny...our pay analysis shows that compared to some professions(ie: athletes), our value in society is fairly low...but yet teachers are expected to be always in their teaching shoes...in the classroom or not. I don't really think it's fair that we are put up to this type of standard, but i take it that none of us are in teaching for the money...so...once a teacher, always a teacher(in the eyes of the public anyways...)
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