• Ask yourself this question: . . .
• Ask your child(ren)'s (school's?) teacher(s) this question: . . .
• Ask your child(ren)'s (school's?) principal this question: . . .
• Ask your child(ren)'s (school's?) superintendent/school board this question: . . .
• Ask your state representative/senator/governor this question: . . .
• Ask your congressperson/senator this question: . . .
• Ask your employer this question: . . .

It turns out that I had been invited to attend that wiki, and for SOME reason I was taken right there. I hadn't even seen the email invitation yet. So, I had no way of knowing that I wasn't looking at my own wiki. Yes, I COULD have looked at the name in the corner, but why would I even think to do that? I had clicked a link in my own wiki, turned my head, and saw what I thought was spam.

The good news is that we were able to recover all that text, although the formatting was largely gone. The bad news is that I felt like a REAL schmuck for doing that. I'm supposed to be a techie kinda guy.

Bottom line - let's be careful out there. :-)

Thanks to John for sharing this on another listserv. For access to technology we get a B. Not bad. For USE of technology - we get a D. Could it be that the @#$%^ lawyers are cutting the legs out from under us every time we try to use it? Could it be rampant paranoia? Could it just be that teachers don't KNOW how to use it? A combination thereof?

Not from PA? Check YOUR state's grades here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/tc/2007/30stc.h26.html

Good luck.

James Gates
Instructional Technology Trainer
CAIU
55 Miller Street
Summerdale, PA 17093
717-732-8406

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