Teacher+Guidelines

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Jefferson **County** **Board of Education Teacher Guidelines for Using Online Journals and Web Logs**

The use of online journals and web logs as effective classroom tools to encourage collaboration, enhance writing skills, share information, foster discussion, report research, and provide feedback relating to classroom instruction is encouraged within the Jefferson County School System. However, due to the nature of social networking sites, JefCoEd has adopted the following guidelines regarding the instructional use of online journals and web logs.

1. All teachers in Jefferson County interested in using web logs (blogs) for educational use should attend a 2 hour training session offered by the Technology department and be familiar with these guidelines. 2. Blogs for educational use within the Jefferson County School System must be created in one these ??? approved blog sites: a. Edublogs.org- b. ??? c. ??? 3. Teachers must manage all posts and comments in their class blogs. a. As administrator of your blog, approve all post and comments before they are published. b. Use a spam filter to control comments and posts from spammers. c. Hold all comments/posts containing hyperlinks until you have approved all sites. 4. Teachers must create a unique and secure password for their blog and change it periodically. 5. Teachers are advised to **inform** parents/guardians of the instructional use of blogs before students are allowed to post to your class blog. 6. Teachers must identify students who do not have access to the Internet. 7. Teachers must inform their local administrator and/or technology supervisor of the class blog topic prior to creating a class blog site. 8. Teachers considering the use of blogs as an instructional tool should notify their school TC so that the tech committee may consider adding this to the school’s technology plan. Updates regarding any new system-wide information concerning blogging will come from your school TC. 9. Teachers should include the JefCoEd disclaimer in their class blog either as the first post to the blog or in the about section of their blog. a. “This is a classroom web log managed by an employee of the Jefferson County Board of Education. As such, it should be treated as any other classroom space. All posting and comments to this web blog will be moderated before publication. The postings on this space represent the personal views and opinions of the individuals who post and do not necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of the Jefferson County Board of Education.”