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Transparency
By audhill | October 29, 2007
I remember reading a bunch of blog entries by Miguel Guhlin on transparency. Most of the time I felt like it was a bit naive to think that you could really keep all your choices, reasons, opinions and feelings above deck. Education is a highly political environment and you just never know. You know?
Okay. But now I have 110 kids blogging on a weekly basis. (Each kid one entry a week, five kids to a blog) And it occurs to me that maybe I should make my blog available to them. That way they can see that I’m blogging, too. Here’s how I chewed it:
Some of what I write might interest them enough, although most of it might not, and knowing that they were reading my work could influence my writing more, which wouldn’t be a bad thing, necessarily…. since simplifying is an art and it’s always profitable to clarify your thoughts for others. And, I would write a lot more than I have been lately. Knowing that I’m expecting a weekly column from them makes it pretty hard for me to miss a week (or four). And besides, isn’t that what I expect from them? Yeah… but.
Once my kids have my blog, so will anyone in my district, including parents, colleagues and administrators. In theory, they all do now. I don’t think I say anything that I would regret others knowing, and I wouldn’t expect anyone to bother reading it more than once or twice, even so. Unless I inadvertently, accidently or rantingly got too controversial at some point. And that I could do. I’ve been known to not know I’ve said something incindiary until someone pointed it out to me. (foot in mouth duh factor)
Be careful ….. every day, you mean? Never forget that someone may be listening. Okay. I’m there. I think.
But, maybe it would still be better for me to create a mirror blog, a place where I pick and choose what my students (and their parents) read that I’ve written.
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