Having a wife in education, and after reading this article (http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070502234811315) , I would agree with the discipline of the student teacher. My wife is going through something very similar now, where a student teacher posted very negative comments about a student on her myspace page. It would seem there is more to the issue here than just a picture of a woman drinking. All of you reactionaries who are declaring that puritanism is back, really need to research beyond the submitter's original submission. The aforementioned news story from the town this occurred in says this woman encouraged children to have personal contact with her outside of school. That's a no-no for any school district, and common sense for any teacher because of all the problems that can occur. This wasn't just about myspace, it was about maintaining a proper student-teacher relationship, something that will impact this woman's future in teaching.
In March of 97 I was hired by the DCCCD to design such an animal. It was called Net On Wheels. We converted a mini-bus (like they use for handicapped people) by putting 2 tables on either side with an aisle down the middle. We had 5 laptops running I-Share, with one acting as the main server. Our connection was a paltry dialup using a cell phone and getting 9600 kb/s if we sat right under the tower. I know bandwith is higher using CDPD, but it was really expensive back then. I don't know if it's as expensive as it was then. We looked into microwave, but in some of the areas we drove we couldn't get line of sight. It was used to introduce folks that lived in Housing developments to the Internet and job searches using the Internet. Quite advanced for that time. We actually found jobs for several people, which I thought was pretty cool.
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Having a wife in education, and after reading this article (http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070502234811315) , I would agree with the discipline of the student teacher. My wife is going through something very similar now, where a student teacher posted very negative comments about a student on her myspace page. It would seem there is more to the issue here than just a picture of a woman drinking. All of you reactionaries who are declaring that puritanism is back, really need to research beyond the submitter's original submission. The aforementioned news story from the town this occurred in says this woman encouraged children to have personal contact with her outside of school. That's a no-no for any school district, and common sense for any teacher because of all the problems that can occur. This wasn't just about myspace, it was about maintaining a proper student-teacher relationship, something that will impact this woman's future in teaching.
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In March of 97 I was hired by the DCCCD to design such an animal. It was called Net On Wheels. We converted a mini-bus (like they use for handicapped people) by putting 2 tables on either side with an aisle down the middle. We had 5 laptops running I-Share, with one acting as the main server. Our connection was a paltry dialup using a cell phone and getting 9600 kb/s if we sat right under the tower. I know bandwith is higher using CDPD, but it was really expensive back then. I don't know if it's as expensive as it was then. We looked into microwave, but in some of the areas we drove we couldn't get line of sight. It was used to introduce folks that lived in Housing developments to the Internet and job searches using the Internet. Quite advanced for that time. We actually found jobs for several people, which I thought was pretty cool.