Blog #5- Thoughts for Wikipedia article

While thinking about what I might want to do my Wikipedia and hypertext essay, I knew that I wanted to do something that related to the field that I am going into, which is teaching. There are so many possibilities that can come out of it, such as: aiding students in the process of finding credible sources while doing research papers, social networking websites (myspace and facebook), cyberbulleying, and so on. Those were just a few of the ideas that I thought of on my own. But then when I looked at some of the topics that last semester's students have done, it brought forth another topic, that is teachers having a profile on myspace and facebook.

This topic really caught my attention. I am going to be a teacher, and currently, I have both a Myspace and a Facebook page. There have been so many stories and rumors spread that principals look on the web to check your background before bringing you in for an interview or offering you a job. On both of these social networking websites, I have my profile set as private, so in order to request me, one has to know me. Although I won't be applying for a teaching job until sometime after September (because I am due to graduate Dec. 09), I plan on deleting my profiles on both of these websites over the summer. I feel that I am about to start my professional career, and it is best that I set a role model for my students and not 'advertise' myself on these websites. This topic choice is not set in stone, and I am not 100% sure this is the topic I'm going to write about, but it is one that I have serious interest in.