I write a blog daily (obviously), and I share it on various
social media platforms regularly. My thought is as an educator I should be
sharing, because I also like to receive information from other educators;
collaboration is the way to truly achieve lasting results.
Anyway, I recently experienced an unusual situation where I
was told that I was “posting too much” in a particular forum, and that “the
higher ups of the institution wanted to keep better control of the content of
their page”. Naturally I was shocked, because none of my posting were inappropriate
and they most were well received based upon the comments and feedback received.
There is also the fact that I was invited into this particular forum…
Another thing that bothered me, and this is no fault of the poor
messenger, but that there was an underlying ‘stop or else’ message. This
particular group in my opinion has a history of that kind ‘or else’ threat to
the people they employ at their offices, and I am sad because I thought they
had evolved due to changes in leadership. I guess they have not.
People, when you have an open forum for professionals to post,
do not be surprised when they actually do post, especially those whose job it
is to do so; and do not get offended if they post more than you (the group
moderators that is) do. After all, they are only trying to enhance your group,
and we all want a group that has dynamic conversations and information flowing
(I would hope so).
Perhaps I am just a small fish in a big pond, but I do have
a voice, as do we all if we exercise them. There are many other forums to
share, dissect, and collaborate education news, so that ‘particular group’, do
not worry I will not be positing in there ever again, and I wish you the best
(truly, not sarcastic).
Dr Flavius A
B Akerele III
The ETeam
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