A good friend of mine, Jethro, had a great post on his blog about a situation he faced with Twitter and his students.  What's impressed me is the amount of comments he's received on this post.  And, I think what brought the comments out is that he was unguarded.  He just posted about the situation and tried to talk about a real situation in a real way.  So, kudos Jethro, you're doing a great thing here.

1. You're talking about a relevant and current issue; i.e. 'Students see twitter post from teacher about students in class.'  These are what Education Administration textbooks are written for.  The funny thing is, those textbooks should probably be re-written, because today they would probably suggest teachers not post to twitter-like services because Murphy's law says the students will find it.
2. You've also created a great forum here.  You have a lot of like-minded people from different groups and areas talking together.  I don't know any of the other people who posted comments, but I bet you I'll run into them again because of this strong community that's been developed.
3. You've spurred other blog posts, like this one.  Anyone else blog about this post?

So, I'm sure they'll be other topics, but this one is still so interesting.  I've had a couple other thoughts that have come out of this:

• Should/could a school be managed like a business?
• What is the social agreement in public education?  Do the teachers, students, and administration support these non-verbal agreements?  Should the agreement be verbal--or written plainly?
• What can an instructional designer learn from this?  Most of the clients I work with come from public education; what baggage do people carry from the United States public education system?
• Do I dare go against the expected; is it really worth it in the long run?  (No cheap answer here, like 'it depends'.  I want truth!)

Cool stuff this blogging/twitter/social web thing.