Am I Too Easy?

This has been a very busy week in the online teacher training course. I'm sure that when Shirely estimated that it would take 6 hours per week, she was using that as a starting point for the time commitment. By the time I finished viewing all the links, watching videos, etc., I must've spent more than that amount of time!

Something that surprised me was everyone's responses to the TA who posted the comment about marking on FB. I was the first to post, and I thought, "Hey, no big deal. Everyone makes mistakes, and marking really is a Sisyphean task. I get where she's coming from!". I thought certainly she shouldn't be fired, perhaps reprimanded, but not fired. We all make mistakes.

Well, let me say that I was the only one who thought that!

Perhaps I made some assumptions about what happened, and to be honest I'm still puzzled as to how this actually happened. Did she make the mistake of "friending" her students and forgot that she had done so? Did one of her co-workers rat her out? Did she forget to turn her privacy settings on? Am I just making excuses for her bad behaviour?

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt, even though what she did seems inexcusable. Maybe this would make me a good juror . . . Maybe it's that I'm not perfect either, and I would hope that people would forgive me if I did such a stupid thing . . . Who really knows?

What's this all about?

So, this is my first official blog post and like many other bloggers out there, I'm not sure that what it is I have to say is of any importance whatsoever. Hence, the name of my blog, prattle-babble.

This is a space for random thoughts--when they pop into my head--and other such nonsense.

I'm stumbling around in the online environment and I'm finding it quite intense. There's so much out there! I want to be connected to it all, but I realize that for my own sanity, I need to scrutinize what it is I spend my time doing.

Come back for some more random thoughts at a later time!

Juanita