Parental Permission

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Permalink Reply by David Robb on December 29, 2008 at 2:55pm

Bud the Teacher has a great letter about blogging - http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blogging_letter

You could modify it for using a wiki.

Dave
http://er2.weebly.com

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Permalink Reply by Steve O'Connor on December 29, 2008 at 3:42pm

What is your school's policy regarding such? If there isn't one, then it is time to talk to your administrators and tech committee.

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Permalink Reply by MartinB on December 29, 2008 at 4:48pm

There's a policy. I have it. It was updated over the summer to account for Web 2.0 innovations. I am just looking for what ideas for how teacher's go about communicating with parents and informing them about the district policies. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Sharon Stephens on December 29, 2008 at 6:40pm

TeachersFirst has a great Student Wiki Warranty that you can download and modify. Our county Acceptable Use Policy covered the legalities for me, but I wanted an additional letter to send home to parents. Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on December 29, 2008 at 7:22pm

At the beginning of the year we send home a packet for parents to sign including district's AUP and photo release, permission to publish student work to the web, permission for student pictures, permission for penpals, email, blogs, etc. Each permission slip explains our goals and purpose--if we do a new activity we notify parents and principal. We post almost everything we do to the web, many times pics of the classroom going-ons are sent to parents on the day of the event. You can see all we've done here.

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Permalink Reply by Marie on December 30, 2008 at 12:19am

There's a sample parental permission letter on John Pearce's blog as well as a set of class rules. I found it very helpful when setting up class blogs.

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