Joe Hoffman
Reflection on Googleing my name
I am not a digital person. I don’t face book, blog, except when forced to, or even email people. I only got a cell phone five years ago. It was no surprise to me that I am an internet nobody. After I went through the Google and Pipl searches, I didn’t really find much about my self. My full name (Joseph Paul Hoffman) turned up nothing my common name (Joe) gave me a few images of myself fishing on a boat that someone else had posted at some time and some art shows I have been in. My handle (joehoffman82) produced more results but not much, a few blog posts that a previous teacher had assigned. If you search my name in Google videos you will find two films that I made “David Lane the Guru”, and “God and His Fishermen”. I am glad that I have nothing to be embarrassed of that can be found on line.
There is nothing that I would like to change on the internet about myself. Its not that I have never done or said anything embarrassing, I’m just lucky enough to not have hade anyone post it on the internet. The worst thing one may find about me would be my criminal record which includes some misdemeanors I was convicted of in high school. I have changed my life significantly since then and I would gladly explain the transformation to anyone who had problems with my record. Thank God all of the stupid things I did when I was young were done in a time when no one could afford a digital camera.
I absolutely believe that teachers should be held to a standard higher than that of the rest of the community. What a teacher writes and wrote in the past should be a mater of serious consideration. I stand by everything that I have ever written no mater how offensive or politically incorrect it may be. I have never written anything mean, hateful, or untrue. When I say that what a teacher writes is a mater of consideration, what I mean is that it should be considered during the hiring process. I do not believe that when someone becomes a teacher that they suddenly lose there first amendment rights. Teachers are Americans just like the rest of us and while we may hold them to a higher social standard they can not legally be treated any different than the rest of us.
I don’t think I am going to do anything in particular to protect my reputation or my job other than being myself and perhaps watching what I say a little closer. I know that my religious and political views are not shared by most people in the field of education. Being philosophically outnumbered is something that I will have to contend with however, I refuse to cowardly hide my feelings or beliefs for fear of confrontation. This approach may someday come back to hurt me but I could not live any other way.
Places I found myself on line
flickr.cwww.coopkiosk.com/.../Hoffman/hoffman.html
www.coopkiosk.com/.../Hoffman/hoffman.html
http://www.coopkiosk.com/TheCoopKiosk%20folder/TheCoopKiosk/meettheartists.html
google videos search +Joe Hoffman
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