Cassie Patt

I was reading this great thread on the Classroom 2.0 forum started by a classroom teacher who is really getting her students involved in her class through the use of a class blog, Beyond Keyboarding.  This brings up the predicament that teachers have always faced, but even more so today in the "transparent" culture of the internet, and that is where do we draw the line between ourselves and our students. 

I know that especially as a young teacher teaching high school, those boundaries were very blurry!  It didn't help that I was the cheerleading coach and closer in age to my senior studens than to most of my colleagues.  Back then, I had students emailing me all of the time because I had given out my email so they could clarify homework, projects, etc.  It seems that at least with the blogs, it is a more public forum (kind of like the difference in closing and opening the classroom door when speaking to a student one-on-one). 

I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this.