Are you concerned about students taping you in class and then posting the videos online?
by Sara Ring
January 2, 2008
What happens in class doesn't always stay in class, thanks to the rising popularity of camera phones that can also record digital video clips. At an Arizona high school, students secretly taped their teacher performing a spirited cheerleading routine in front of the class and posted the video online. Displeased with the teacher's conduct, the school district put her on administrative leave, and she later resigned.
Elsewhere, teachers have found video clips of their own classroom performances, lessons, and even angry outbursts posted on sites such as YouTube and MySpace for the world to see. Though these clips are undoubtedly humiliating, there's little anyone can do to remove them from these Web sites. Do you trust your students to respect your privacy, or might you become the next unwitting Internet star? We want to know!
Links:
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[5] http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/02/caught_on_tape_for_better_or_w.html "target="new
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