Comments on: Passive Voices, Passive Minds, PR Failures, and the Teacher Who’s Actually Taking Credit for “Heidi Cee” http://www.literalmayhem.com/2008/02/27/passive-voices-passive-minds-dismal-pr-failures-and-the-name-of-the-guy-who-taught-%e2%80%9cheidi-cee%e2%80%9d/ Spin has consequences... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:42:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: letterhead http://www.literalmayhem.com/2008/02/27/passive-voices-passive-minds-dismal-pr-failures-and-the-name-of-the-guy-who-taught-%e2%80%9cheidi-cee%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-113 letterhead Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:30:49 +0000 http://www.literalmayhem.com/2008/02/27/passive-voices-passive-minds-dismal-pr-failures-and-the-name-of-the-guy-who-taught-%e2%80%9cheidi-cee%e2%80%9d/#comment-113 Tim... thanks for writing. I will be sure to check out the article you mentioned. I regret any mis-identification. But to be fair, Ben DOES take credit on his resume for developing the course and gaining the sponsorship. (If this is incorrect then he needs to re-write it.) He was also actively involved in giving advice to students. His comments appear regularly on the student blog site for the class. And one of the student comments called him "prof." So it's an honest mistake... though not completely a mistake if he DID in fact teach and he DID take credit for it. The only real error was assuming that he was the one with objections. He was not. And I'm sorry for getting that wrong. Tim… thanks for writing. I will be sure to check out the article you mentioned. I regret any mis-identification. But to be fair, Ben DOES take credit on his resume for developing the course and gaining the sponsorship. (If this is incorrect then he needs to re-write it.)

He was also actively involved in giving advice to students. His comments appear regularly on the student blog site for the class. And one of the student comments called him “prof.” So it’s an honest mistake… though not completely a mistake if he DID in fact teach and he DID take credit for it.

The only real error was assuming that he was the one with objections. He was not. And I’m sorry for getting that wrong.

]]> By: Tim Portlock http://www.literalmayhem.com/2008/02/27/passive-voices-passive-minds-dismal-pr-failures-and-the-name-of-the-guy-who-taught-%e2%80%9cheidi-cee%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Tim Portlock Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:03:46 +0000 http://www.literalmayhem.com/2008/02/27/passive-voices-passive-minds-dismal-pr-failures-and-the-name-of-the-guy-who-taught-%e2%80%9cheidi-cee%e2%80%9d/#comment-112 My name is Tim Portlock and I am the person who was pressured in to teaching the class sponsored by Coach that you refer to in your recent series of posts. I am also the same person that had ethical problems with the class from the beginning and I had let it be known that I had no background to teach a class on PR. I want to clarify some misleading information in your posts in regards to Benjamin Weisman. Ben co-taught the class with me, and was not directly involved in a number of aspects of this overall incident that you describe in your Feb 27 post. Ben in fact came to co-teach the class at my request and at no time was forced to deal with the issues that I was facing. I would suggest that you read the article that was written on this whole matter by a journalist at Inside Higher Education magazine http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/03/hunter who interviewed me, Professor Stuart Ewan and my department chair, James Roman who to my knowledge are the only parties with direct knowledge of the events in question who have spoken to the public at this point. My name is Tim Portlock and I am the person who was pressured in to teaching the class sponsored by Coach that you refer to in your recent series of posts. I am also the same person that had ethical problems with the class from the beginning and I had let it be known that I had no background to teach a class on PR. I want to clarify some misleading information in your posts in regards to Benjamin Weisman. Ben co-taught the class with me, and was not directly involved in a number of aspects of this overall incident that you describe in your Feb 27 post. Ben in fact came to co-teach the class at my request and at no time was forced to deal with the issues that I was facing. I would suggest that you read the article that was written on this whole matter by a journalist at Inside Higher Education magazine
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/03/hunter
who interviewed me, Professor Stuart Ewan and my department chair, James Roman who to my knowledge are the only parties with direct knowledge of the events in question who have spoken to the public at this point.

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