Safety & Copyright

Student Safety and

Guidelines

1. Never post personal information — develop a format for students to post under or by if you need to track their activities
2. Never plagiarize (give credit where credit is due)
3. School appropriate language only — including no text message language types
4. Provide constructive criticism to others, not derogatory or hurtful criticism
5. Use support from the text as evidence/proof for your statements
6. Never bully or harass another student or individual
7. Take responsibility for items posted in your name and do NOT post as other students for responses (the IP address for postings will give it away to Mrs. Good)
8. All materials linked or posted on sites are both school appropriate and class appropriate
9. Respect the public nature of online information, do not provide personal information about classmates in your responses — thus, don’t write about other people without permission
10. Never disrespect someone else – person, organization, or idea
11. Keep everything education-oriented; this means no discussing the school dance, etc.
12. If students are creating their own webpage, use RSS Feeds to maintain the updates on the various sites

Web Publishing

Some of the first concerns teachers face revolve around copyright and safety. The following links help teachers evaluate what they can and can’t do or have done on their sites.

Copyright and Fair Use from 21st Century Information Fluency

Teacher’s Guide to Fair Use and Copyright from George Washington University

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 from Federal Trade Commission