Re: [LM_NET] One more FB comment

[Paula Yohe <paula_yohe@YAHOO.COM>]

You actually go to student graduation parties? I am stunned.
 
I am sorry but I agree with the first poster -- you are lucky that you have not had 
any problems so far.
I wish you luck... because their will be a parent at some point who takes offense 
and believe me until you sit in a meeting with irate parents, lawyers, law 
enforcement and the supt. you have not seen anything. 
 
Anything that is not an official district sanctioned communication tool is asking 
for trouble.
 

Paula Yohe
Director Of Technology/Library Media Center
Dillon School District Two
405 West Washington Street
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214
paula_yohe@yahoo.com

--- On Mon, 3/23/09, Marsha Redd <marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Marsha Redd <marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] One more FB comment
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 4:53 PM

While I understand your hesitation, I don't feel that I am in any danger of
being charged with any offense as I am not committing any offense. I don't
post things that I wouldn't want anyone to see. I am merely choosing to be
involved with the students and be a part of their lives, which they dearly
appreciate. I don't feel that this is, as one post said, hanging out with
them. If that were the case, I guess I shouldn't go to their graduation
parties either. But I get invited to many of them, and I go to as many as I can.
I also have a bulletin board full of senior pictures that have been given to me.
The students appreciate that I take an interest in them. I was just at a
conference last week (Michigan Computer Users in Education) where I heard a lot
of talk about Facebook, et. al. and I never heard a negative comment. What I did
hear is that kids are digital natives while most of us are digital immigrants.
We can't teach them until we can reach them, and as long as we have a
digital accent we are impeded.

Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School 
Grand Rapids, MI 
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher. 



To: marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM; LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
From: gbrewste@molineschools.org
Subject: Re: One more FB comment
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:17:38 -0500






 
 


I've waited so long to comment on this subject because I too am on the
fence about "connecting" with students on a social website. However, I
think we would all be wise to take a wait and see attitude because I think
it's just a matter of time before some educator will be charged with an
offense (guilty or not) through a Facebook type of contact.

Gail Brewster
Media Specialist
Moline High School
Moline, IL   61265
gbrewste@molineschools.org
Phone (309) 743-8901
Fax (309) 757-3484
http://mhsav.wikispaces.com/
From: Marsha Redd [mailto:marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM]
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:35:19 -0500
Subject: Re: One more FB comment

I originally got started with FB because my son, who had just gone off to
college, asked me to. I was absolutely thrilled that he wanted to keep in touch
with me and I jumped at the chance to keep up with what was going on with him.
Some of his friends then asked to friend me and then their parents. In much the
same way, when students want to friend me, I feel complimented that they wish to
share their lives with me. They enjoy it when I wish them a happy birthday or
make a comment about how nice they look in their prom pictures. I do these same
kinds of things in person at school too. It's just another way of connecting
with them.



Marsha Redd

Librarian, Kelloggsville High School 

Grand Rapids, MI 

marsharedd@hotmail.com

Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher.







> From: rschulte@watertownsd.us

> To: marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM; LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

> Subject: RE: One more FB comment

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:40:47 -0500

> 

> I've enjoyed reading this thread.  It's amazing how different the
opinions

> are, and how passionate everyone is that their opinion is right.  

> I got a facebook account for 2 reasons- 1. I work in a public library, and
I

> thought it would be a fun way to communicate with the teens I work with.

> (unfortunately, not one of the kids in my teen group have a facebook

> account!)  and 2. As a parent, I want to see what my own kids are up to on

> facebook.  I have added my own kids as 'friends', added their
friends as

> friends, and have contacted many a friend from my past as a friend.  I

> absolutely LOVE BEING IN TOUCH!

> A couple nights ago, my girlfriends daughter happened to be on facebook,
so

> I popped into chat and said "HI".  We visited for a few minutes
before her

> Mom made her get off the computer for the night.  The next day, her mom
sent

> me an email telling me how impressed her daughter was that I would take
the

> time to even say hi to her.  It made the young lady feel good that an
adult

> would do that.  There are way more advantages to being a friend than

> disadvantages.

> That said, I do have a pending friend request from a past student from
when

> I worked in the school system.  I haven't decided if I want to start
that or

> not.  So, for now, I continue to read this thread with great interest on
all

> sides!

> 

> Raynette Schulte

> Young Adult Librarian

> Watertown Regional Library

> Watertown, SD

> rschulte@watertownsd.us

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: School Library Media & Network Communications

> [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Marsha Redd

> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:07 AM

> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

> Subject: One more FB comment

> 

> I really think that the students appreciate the fact that I treat them
like

> real human beings. Don't get me wrong--I'm not out to be their
buddy, and

> they know this. It may make a difference that I am 56 years old and I work

> in a high school, not a middle or elementary school. So far I have had

> absolutely no negative effects from it--only positive.

> 

> Marsha Redd

> Librarian, Kelloggsville High School 

> Grand Rapids, MI 

> marsharedd@hotmail.com

> Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.

> Everyone is a teacher.

> 

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