Encouraging Teachers to be on Social Networks

I guess you can see that I'm trying to be committed to doing this every day. Sometimes I wonder if I'll have anything to say. I'm sure that after I'm in the habit, I'll be ok with skipping some days. This holds true with my picture a day of Audrey. I was thinking today about how I've become a little less private on the internet with my life, but I think I'm keeping it totally clean. This should be easy if my life is an open book, right?

This brings to mind the news story from today that United States Marines have been banned totally from Twitter and Facebook. They said it was a risk to national security, and I guess if you have a renegade Marine with a cell phone, he could tweet the military's plans for the whole world to see!?

Then my friend Kelly told me that her principal has told the staff they should probably delete their facebook if they have one. All I can say is that if you are not presenting anything there that would get you in trouble, then you should be okay. I guess they are covering themselves in the likely event that someone with no sense will post bad things and get the school board in trouble. I just don't think there's anything wrong with going out and using the internet like everyone else. If we want to teach the kids to compete in the future world, then we need to be in tune with it. So many teachers avoid technology just because they are scared of it, the last thing we need is the school boards causing the teachers to be frightened of losing their jobs over using it. I mean, just keep it clean folks. Enough said.

My running times tonight! I actually went 2 miles. I know. I couldn't believe it myself. I was in pain when it was over, though. The first mile was 12:36 and combined for two miles was 28:22. Much better than I thought it would be.

Ok, so you know my daughter has just turned one, right? Today I go in to get her after her nap and she has taken off her diaper and thrown it out of the crib. The sheets and matress are soaked.

Well folks, this is probably my third attempt at a standalone blog, and I think I may last this time. I want to be able to look back, or maybe even my daughter be able to look back and see what life was like during this time in the world. It's pretty crazy. Maybe I'll get to tell all my old man stories on here before it's all said and done.

I hope that I'll still be able to be on facebook then. You would think that if only your friends can see your facebook, then you should be safe. I have actually thought about deleting all my co-workers from my facebook, but I thought better of it.