Student teachers learn tough lesson in social media use

University of Manitoba finds some education students guilty of misusing Facebook, Twitter.
Some teachers-in-training at the University of Manitoba have been caught using their Facebook and Twitter accounts inappropriately, in some cases bad-mouthing their professors on the social media websites.
The university's Faculty of Education says in the last seven months, a professional misconduct committee found four student teachers guilty of misusing social media.
In most instances, the prospective teachers had posted nasty messages about their professors, said Jerome Cranston, the department's acting dean of undergraduate studies. Read more...