Good questions! We do not have a faculty AUP at the moment. As far as I know, it’s not in development. We did have one at Munich International School when I was there, that might be a good place to start.

We do need to expand this to other forms of online interaction. I usually distribute a specific permission slip for when students are authors of the work, but it make so much more sense just to have it all in the AUP. This is currently a topic of discussion in our team meetings. If you’d like to see that permission slip, it’s posted here: Blogging is Elementary.

@Brandt,

Hmmm…. I wonder if this is an issue in international schools. I actually don’t know of any of these things happening in any of the international schools I’ve worked at. Might be more of a US-based challenge.

For me, the goal is to have consistency across classrooms and grade levels, to make these guidelines easy for all teachers to follow (and for all parents to understand). It’s not about hiding student identity, it’s about modeling appropriate and safe behavior online and ensuring that our actions reflect the attitudes and behaviors we are teaching our students.

@Eric205,

Thanks! Glad you find it useful!

Eric.

Or…Board of Education minutes often have the full names of students who win awards. These minutes are almost always prominently displayed. (maybe not a consideration for you).

Anyway, I think it is really hard to follow these rules all the time. Is the expectation still that we hide student identity? Is it changing?

You state that these will go into an AUP signed by students and parents, how are you currently handling a faculty AUP? Do you have one or is this part of the development? I am currently looking for good, easy to use examples of faculty AUP’s as we are trying to develop one for TAISM.

Have you thought about how your points translate to video posts or student blogging?

Thanks,

Thanks for the tip. To be honest, I’m not so concerned about specific language at this point (or USA-based terminology since we’re an international school). Just wanted to get some feedback on the ideas.

Good thinking about the links. Again, I’m not sure this is as much of a problem in international schools (we don’t usually overlap with local papers in any way). But I’m still curious, how would you deal with that? Would the feeds have to be moderated by someone?

What about links? If “Johnny” wins a big scholarship competition and the story is in CNN it probably has his last name (and parents name, etc…). A lot of school sites have RSS feeds which collect this type of information and automatically post it.