I must admit when a colleague complained about a post on "Rate My Teacher" that he could just log on and post his own positive feedback. I suppose I could "employ" the efforts of the school computer club to wash away any negative feedback with a crowd-sourced wave of respect, love and glory .. in exchange for more game time I suppose.<div>
<br></div><div>Has anybody noticed that if you have a LinkedIN account and Google Profile that it pushes you up the search tree, pushing the rubbish to page two. Another point of trivia, if you just google for the name "Roland" then I am on the front page, battling "Roland Keyboards" for a place. Last year I overtook my Dutch unicycling cousin of the same name in our race for the top. I'll need all the help I can get to beat the music industry. In a couple of weeks I will be spending some time with my family in the Netherlands whilst on LSL.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am thinking of putting something in for a distance workshop with the VITTA conference from Venice I think, check out the program :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Tot ziens, Roland</div><div><br></div><div>
Disclaimer: I dont ride a unicycle and play the clarinet/sax, not the keyboard.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2011 20:21, WEIR Andrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.weir@thomascarr.vic.edu.au">andrew.weir@thomascarr.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Have just looked at some comments on your staff at the rate my teacher website - and I can see why some staff are getting a bit upset.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Perhaps we need to link in to cyber bullying - because that is what it is - and deal with it under cyber bullying policy.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Also need to encourage the students to </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Robert Hind (Semi-retired) OOF, GOM (Thanks Kent!)<br>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
<div>Probably a great chestnut to talk about but what do other schools do in relation to comments posted on the rate my teacher website. </div>
<div>Some of the comments are starting to get a little personal for a few staff and I wanted to see our other schools handle it.</div>
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