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privacy concerns!

Here are some perspectives about privacy concerns, written by bloggers and twitters who made different choices.

open twitter account (tweets visible to all)

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I like having my twitter name as my real name so that it would not be confusing for people who read my tweets.  When I was new to Twitter, my protected my tweets.  However, I found that it was difficult to participate in things like  mathchats, educhats, and book studies.  I would reply to people, but they could not read my reply unless I added them as a Twitter contact.  It was pretty frustrating.  I finally decided to unprotect my tweets because I wanted my tweets to be able to help other teachers.  I wanted teachers new to Twitter to be able to find me, just as I found so many amazing math teachers when I was new.  If everyone's tweets had been protected, I would not have been able to read all of the fabulous information that they were tweeting, and I would have never known how amazing Twitter was.   

--Julie Reulbach, ispeakmath.wordpress.com/ @jruelbach

open blog (author's name, school mentioned)

I honestly don't see the need to hide my identity. I try and keep my blog so that if my superintendent, principal, or mom read it I'd have nothing to regret or worry about.  There are times that I have to think closely about what I'm writing, but my blog is a place for me to be open with what I'm doing (and feeling) and I don't think that I need to hide who I am.

Honestly, too, I like to have my name out there for doing good things. If I ever decide to change jobs I want to have evidence of the learning and metamorphosis I've done in the past so many years. 

--Kristen Fouss, myweb20journey.blogspot.com/ @Fouss

I leave both my blog and twitter account unprotected because they are a representation of my professional self.  My belief is that I shouldn't need to hide behind a private setting.  I want to represent Myself, MY classroom, MY school, MY district.   

--Sarah Bratt, mathbratt.blogspot.com/ @MathBratt

protected twitter account
(tweets not visible except to those approved)

I used to have an open twitter account. It was great when I first started out tweeting, because it was easy for people to see my tweets and connect up with me. However, after I got a number of followers, and I felt they were more like friends than professional colleagues, I wanted to share more of my personal life with them. 

As I started sharing more about my personal life on this public space that was open to all, I didn't feel comfortable having it available to just anyone (students, parents, colleagues). Thus, I protected my tweets. Although I don't think I would have started off protected, it makes sense for me now.

--Sam Shah, samjshah.com, @samjshah

protected blog
(author's name and school not mentioned)

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The purpose of my blog is to enable me to develop my teaching practice through active reflection on and discussion of new things I try in my classroom. Because I teach in a public school and am scrupulous about respecting and protecting my students' privacy, I prefer to keep my blog pseudonymous (in addition to never sharing anything revealing about student identities). And since my Twitter life and my blog life are one and the same, it feels prudent to keep my Twitter life at the same level of protectedness. My principal, my superintendent, and my board all know about and are supportive of my blogging/Twitter life. But they appreciate that I maintain a certain set of healthy boundaries. I'm hardly a secret agent, but I feel more confident about "quarantining" my details until I have established a personal and/or professional relationship with individuals in the Twitterblogosphere. 

— cheesemonkeysf.blogspot.com,  @cheesemonkeysf

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