Came across something very interesting when on twitter the other day. For all you other tweeters you may have seen this too..

It appeared that Gary Glitter had made a twitter account and had claimed over 200,000 followers in a matter of weeks. However, after much controversy it turned out that this was a fake account set up by a person to highlight the ease at which sex offenders could access twitter and other peoples accounts. The person argued that although @officialgaryglitter received a lot of hate mail, he also received a lot of support. The person wanted to highlight to parents how easy it was for sex offenders to set up fake accounts and the dangers their children may face when on sites such as twitter. Although twitter recommends that people should be of age 13 or above to use twitter, there is no actual age restrictions. It also has no way of filtering content or people who sign up i.e sex offenders etc. The article was really interesting, especially when we are perhaps trying to encourage children to use these sites...

Sunday night and I'm sitting contemplating some of the other blogs I've read and some questions I've also came across myself...

One blog was concerning the essays that we have just received our marks back for. This particular blogger "failed" their essay and this made them question their ability to teach?? Personally I think this is ludicrous! I understand the argument the Uni poses that to be a good teacher we should be able to write 'an essay' which may be true but how can they justifying 'passing or failing' us on being an effective teacher on our ability to write an educational paper? I also don't understand how we can all be marked with the same benchmarks... Some students are English students, or Modern Studies students who are more literate and knowledgeable perhaps about the essay. I'm speaking from a personal opinion as a chemist who has no experience what so ever at writing 4000 word essays!!
Think that turned into more or a rant than anything, but the point I was getting to is... Are our abilities to write essays directly related to our abilities to teach???

What I have learned today :)

Today I have learned that I have never lived in a society where the www hasn't existed! I have also learned that I am the same age as David Muirs daughter :)