[Offtopic] Blogging Guidelines for Staff/Students

[Therese Keane]

 Have a look at this web site  for inspiration...

http://www.edtechmag.com/k12/issues/november-december-2006/blog-rules.ht
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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
Sent: Monday, 27 August 2007 2:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Blogging Guidelines for Staff/Students

On 8/27/07, Therese Keane <Therese.Keane at genazzano.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Vic - With staff, I would rather give them some guidelines at 
> an offical level such as:
>
> 1.    The College has jurisdiction of authority over blog sites that
staff
> would like to be made publicly accessible to its parents.
> 2.    Like official college letter heads, blog sites have to meet
College
> endorsed presentation requirements (e.g. graphics).
> 3.    Blog entries from staff are to reflect the college's vision,
mission
> and values.
> 4.    Blog entries must avoid making reference to personal details of
the
> teacher or students.
>
> I would like to provide as many as possible so that staff members do 
> not exploit loopholes.

I hadn't noticed the bit about staff, though I would consider a similar
approach to the one for students.

I don't like the sound of that last sentence - what exactly are you
trying to achieve by getting your staff blogging? If you want to use
blogs as a genuine and successful reflection tool, then I don't think an
approach like this will get there. If you prevent staff from blogging
critically about the school with their name attached, they will just do
the same under a pseudonym.

vik
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