[ShepherdsDog]

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Some teachers-in-training at the University of Manitoba have been caught using their Facebook and Twitter accounts inappropriately, in some cases bad-mouthing their professors on the social media websites.

The university's Faculty of Education says in the last seven months, a professional misconduct committee found four student teachers guilty of misusing social media.

In most instances, the prospective teachers had posted nasty messages about their professors, said Jerome Cranston, the department's acting dean of undergraduate studies.

"There's a clear identification that these are Bachelor of Education at University of Manitoba students," Cranston told CBC News.

"Then [they] enter into these conversations that clearly go beyond their personal life and start to then definitely blur into their professional life."

The consequences for the student teachers range from having to write letters of apology to expulsion from the department.

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[BartSimpson]

Anything posted on the net is public...even if you think it's private.

[xerxes]

At the very least if you're going to bad mouth your profs on Facebook, make a hidden group that invitation only.

[martin14]

xerxes xerxes:

At the very least if you're going to bad mouth your profs on Facebook, make a hidden group that invitation only.

Sure, we even have experience of the super secret Facebook group here at CKA....



worked out really well, if I remember.

[Unsound]

This is why I purposefully added my old prudish auntie on FB. Anything I'm willing to let her see or read isn't gonna get me in trouble with anyone else.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

Is Facebook still used?

And Twitter... I just can't get into Twitter.

Twitter isn't meant for serious discussion or exchange of ideas. It's meant for posting inanities.

[jeff744]

Unsound Unsound:

This is why I purposefully added my old prudish auntie on FB. Anything I'm willing to let her see or read isn't gonna get me in trouble with anyone else.

Mine was my brother and a few old teachers, most of what I post is in regards to gaming or simply random amusing things as a result.

[raydan]

These are the future teachers that will get offended later on when then get bad-mouthed by their own students.

[Thanos]

So to some people, 20-odd years into the internet era, it's still a shock to them when they get in trouble for saying stupid things on the 'net under their real names?

[xerxes]

Apparently. I'm more offended that they got caught.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

So to some people, 20-odd years into the internet era, it's still a shock to them when they get in trouble for saying stupid things on the 'net under their real names?

Dude, I've gotten in real-world trouble for stuff I posted here under my avatar name.

Anonymity on the net is a thing of the past. I know.

[ShepherdsDog]

Maybe you shouldn't have used the work computer during office hours......i use my own netbook during breaks....hell I don't even use my work laptop on the wireless at home

[Thanos]

Yeah, and avoiding Facebook (especially at work) like it's the plague, is highly advisable too.

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