Social Networking and Teachers

Social Networking may be one of the biggest internet trends in the last few years, but while students flock to it in droves, it's educational potential still remains questionable and in need of investigation. However, we have been hearing reports of school districts being uncomfortable with their teachers signing up for sites such as MySpace or Facebook, as many places (not just Alberta) have legislation and/or professional codes of conduct that seek to regulate the public behaviour of teachers in and out of school. This article, came to us from Eschoolnews.com, via Twitter and MyLearningSpace, and centres around the problem of social networks allowing for the overlapping of a teacher's public and private behaviour.