I Think We're Alone Now...
I have a question for you all.
What exactly happened to the Spanish students? Did you scare them all away?
I do have to agree...it is frustrating to have 90% of the blogs in here consisting of the following:
"Today I learned that biblioteca means library.
Donde esta la Biblioteca?
Es despues de la playa!
Gracias!
De Nada"
You know? I don't care where the library is...in english or spanish!
*what's truly sad is that I edited this post twice to correct my shoddy spanish grammar! Damn you Senora Hoffman...8th grade spanish shall forever haunt me!
I have no doubt that we all want the site and Tim to do well...very well...
And it's totally Tim's call if he wants the site to be used for educational purposes...or for entertainment purposes, self expression purposes, b.s. purposes...what have you. However, I don't think anyone should expect him to police who's registering on B4M and what their intended use is regardless of whos blogging...that's true for the students and the regular bloggers...so yes, I complained a bit...the students were annoying...but my view of it is this:
Speaking as an educator and someone that works in higher-education...it's difficult to have both (blogging for education, blogging for fun, expression, entertainment, socializing, etc) co-exist in the same platform. Is a public, shared blog site the correct forum for an 8th grade spanish class? Probably not...because anyone can post as they please, language is unfiltered...so honestly it was the Spanish teacher's lapse of judgement to choose B4M as the forum for his class, because this site (and its URL) are not dedicated to his class and he has no control over who sees or responds to his student's post...or what those people might say.
It would be more appopriate for the Spanish teacher to set up a blog on typepad or livejournal (or god forbid the school system pay for blogging capable education software like Blackboard or WebCT) or something like that where he can better control who has access to the dedicated URL where his students Blog.
Long-story short: Spanish Teacher = irresponsible. Tim's Blog Site=kick ass. Us=a bunch of whiners, lets just get over it. Teachers who plan to have their classes blog here in the future=incapable of learning from the mistakes of others, and don't blame us if your students learn some new words...ones that aren't necessarily in Spanish either!
That's my soapbox...now I'll get off of it!
Oh snap! Timbo bitch slapped peanutbutter! Ha ha ha ha!
Yeah Tim, sorry about the Spanish migration. I'm unfiltered like hefeweizen and bitches better recognize.
Peanutbutter: "You didn't think it would be that easy did you?"
Timbo: "You know, for a second there, ya, I kinda did."
