When I was leaving school today, I was running different things through my head of what I could write about. My first thought originally was to write about my morning with Leo. He isn't in my class, but in first grade. He was the only child I was caring for in morning care for most of the morning and he had much to say, like how his mom used to work for the government and would shove people on a plane and say go back home! I'm sure it wasn't exactly like that. You have to love how children process information!
Then I thought about how the school librarian gave us a book today, O is for Old Dominion. We study Virginia History in fourth grade and the librarian thought we would like having the book. Immediately upon seeing this, one of my students goes oh is that about Kings Dominion before we called it Kings Dominion, it was Old Dominion?
Very cute things happening today, but when I sat down to think about actually writing something up, something came into my head that happened today and I just have to write about it. Last year, my students told me that they googled me. At that point I was like hmm, I need to google myself and see what they are finding. When I started this blog I began trying to promote it on some public pages on facebook and quickly changed my last name, so that it wouldn't show up in a google search.
At the very beginning of the school year, one of the students had mentioned that they saw me on youtube, being that I have an account it wasn't a big deal to me and I don't put anything on there that I wouldn't want children to see. Immediately Agnes asked how she could find me on youtube. I told her that I wasn't going to promote my youtube videos to the class, so if she planned on seeing my videos she would have to do all the work. In my mind, I knew that this wouldn't necessarily be an easy task for her to accomplish.
Today at school Agnes says, "Ms. J. I tried typing in your first name, then your last name, and both your first and last name and I could not find you on youtube."
I laughed to myself thinking, wow I have hid this well from my students. So, I respond back saying, "Oh!"
"What is your middle name Ms. J., I really want to find you on youtube?"
I tell her that she does not need to know my middle name. Before Agnes is able to pop out another question about finding me on youtube, Cosmas goes, "Hey, Agnes did you know last night I found your address online and I can make directions to get to your house?"
"Cosmas, do you live close to Agnes?" I asked.
"No, but last night I found her address and you can click for directions."
There you have it, by fourth grade, children already will begin searching you online and find out where you live.
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