Student+Guidelines

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Jefferson **County** **Board of Education Student 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 student usage guidelines.

1. Students should understand that blogging is a public activity. All posts to the class blog site become public domain and are likely to remain accessible, even if your post has been deleted.
 * 2.** Students should only use first names and last initial (if necessary) when posting to class blogs. Personal information, such as school name and address, home address, phone number, place of work, etc…should not be posted.
 * 3.** Students should use avatars (pictures that represent you but are not of you). Pictures of yourself or other class members should not be posted to the class blog.
 * 4.** Students should treat class blogspace as classroom spaces. As such, you are expected to conduct yourself in a manner reflective of a representative of this school.
 * 5.** Students should only post things that they would want others to read. Teachers, principals, other students, parents, and future employers will all have an opportunity to review your post to the class blog.
 * 6.** Students should remember that freedom of speech comes with personal responsibility. All posts t the class blog represent you and your opinions. Do not post items to the class blog that would make others uncomfortable or reflects you in a bad light.
 * 7.** Students should only post internet links to sites they have read. All links should be related to the class blog topic and contain information worth sharing with the class.
 * 8.** Students should be aware that all posts to the class blog will be reviewed by your teacher before they will be published. This is not intended to inhibit your rights to free speech, but as a general safety precaution. Careful consideration will be given during moderation in order to preserve all original content of your post.
 * 9.** Students should sign the class blogging policy agreement and inform their parents of their class blogging activities.