post a comprehensive list of things to teach students about safe blogging
After checking out some informative sites, reading through a few blogs and different schools online safety policies here are some straight forward fundamentals to safe blogging:
- Never offer any personal information including your last name, contact information, home address, phone numbers, school's name, e-mail address, last names of friends or relatives, instant messaging names, age, or birth date.
- Assume what you publish on the Web is permanent. Anyone on the Internet can easily print out a blog or save it to a computer.
The above mentioned fundamentals and others can be found here.
- Students using blogs are expected to treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for our blog. While we encourage you to engage in debate and conversation with other bloggers, we also expect that you will conduct yourself in a manner reflective of a representative of this school.
The above mentioned fundamentals and others can be found here.
One of the interesting lists I found on multiple sites were not only safety procedures but also blogging guidelines:
- Keep blogs positive and don't use them for slander or to attack others.
- Use common sense
- Make your posts and comments worth reading by doing your best work.
- Reread everything you type for mistakes and errors!
- Use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Work towards expressing yourself in thoughtful, clear, detailed writing every time you post.
- Always provide photo credits to their sources (go through Creative Commons).
- Write in your own words. If you occasionally want to use the words of someone else, use quotes and give credit to that person.
The last six guidelines come from a blog, which you can access here.
Interested in learning more about cyber safety?
Learn how to be a good CYBER CITIZEN
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Learn about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
1 comment:
Your post has many good suggestions and links. Aside from the safety issue, I'm glad that you included a review of a post before publishing to check for errors. Personally that's one reason I use the Google Chrome browser instead of Internet Explorer because whatever you type is automatically spell checked, so you can correct mistakes as you go along.
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