Hello,
I'm finding this thread absolutely fascinating!
I asked a few of my library regulars about what they thought about
Facebook friending with teachers. In the interest of full disclosure,
here, I have a Facebook account so I can peek around out of interest,
but I'm not a regular Facebooker at all. Interestingly, according to my
students, none of the kids has asked to friend a teacher. When they ask
a teacher to friend them it isn't so much for "professional
interaction." [Our students all get a school e-mail account and we run
Moodle] They want to "hang out." According to the kids I've talked to,
the teachers at my school won't friend them. Informal conversation with
teachers around the lunch table indicate that most of the teachers who
are regular Facebookers don't want to friend kids.
When I asked them if we should start an institutional Facebook page for
our library, their most common reaction amounted to [with a laugh] "Ewww
.. Why? ... Just keep putting it on the library Libguide page. We know
where it is ... Leave us alone on Facebook, Mr. Wee!" [then they mocked
me for having no friends of my own ... :-) ]
It has made me realize that every school and every library and every
teacher/librarian is going to have a situation and school culture unique
to them. My kids, it seems, largely fall into the camp that sees the
institutional Facebook concept as a "creepy treehouse."
dave
Dave Wee, Librarian
Harvard-Westlake Middle School
700 North Faring Road
Los Angeles, California 90077
Phone -- (310) 288-3270
E-mail -- dwee @ hw dot com
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where
people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of
employing wild animals as librarians."
~~ Monty Python ~~
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