Remote Access to Professional Learning Board and back again

Teacher Staff Development Web Feeds

From: Clarence Fisher
To: service@professionallearningboard.com
Date: Sep 24 2006 - 8:33pm

My name is Clarence Fisher and I am the author of the blog Remote Access. Looking through my site stats tonight I was interested to see that several hits came to my site from yours. Following the link back, I traveled through your site, one I had never heard of before. I'm interested in why you are publishing the feeds of these blogs and I question if your commercial site should be linking to non - commerical blogs. Should you at least not have a disclaimer of some sort stating that these blogs are not affiliated with you or promoting your service?

Clarence Fisher
Snow Lake, MB.
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Re: Teacher Staff Development Web Feeds

From: Ellen Paxton
To: Clarence Fisher
Date: Sep 24 2006 - 9:57pm

Dear Mr. Fisher,

Please forgive me for overstepping apparent etiquette bounds as well as sending visitors to your blog site. I had not heard of Remote
Access previously and in an effort to share views, educational models, examples of teacher work and other pieces that I admired and thought might be of interest to my visitors (and yes, some of them are customers) I investigated placing feeds on my site.

Thank you for suggesting that I link to sites where I have relationships and/or seek permission from the authors. This makes much sense to me. Please note, Remote Access has been removed.

Sincere regards,

Ellen Paxton
Professional Learning Board
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From: Clarence Fisher
To: Ellen Paxton
Date: Sep 25, 2006 8:22 AM

Mrs. Paxton;

I do thank you for your quick reply and your quick attention to my email from last evening.

Please understand that I did not mean to offend you or question your right to link to my blog, Remote Access; after all, this is what the web is all about. I also do not at all question your right to run a commercial enterprise to improve education and hopefully move the debate forward around educational needs for the 21st century. If you read Remote Access, my hope is that you find this to be a main purpose behind my writing as well.

Searching through your site, I find it to be an excellent example of something that we do need in education and I do plan on writing about this. I also notice that you actively recruit teachers to write and present for you, something that is also excellent as the voices of active teachers with current experience is what many audiences need to hear.

My only concern with your publishing the feed for Remote Access is that most blogrolls are called "Blogs to Read" or something like that. Last summer my blog was used to promote a company which publishes educational materials trying to drive traffic to their site through hosting content like mine. As well Remote Access and several other educational blogs have simply been bundled together, placed on a blog with Google Ads down the side where the person running the site was making advertising dollars simply from re - publishing my content. This is why I may be protective of what I write.

So once again, I apologise for any offence that I may have caused you, do know that I plan on writing positive things about the Professional Learning Board on my blog, and that I do believe your site appears to be among the best of its kind online that I have seen.
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