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Parents, Guardians and Students,

During this year in English 10 in Mrs. Hall’s class, students will be doing collaboration to learn. To do this, we will be using wikis and blogs to collaborate, communicate, reflect, respond, amd create.

A wiki is an interactive webpage that can be used to communicate knowledge and which can be edited by its members and viewed by classmates, the teacher, and anyone that the class decides to invite. Since these areas are going to be learning/working spaces, we will keep these private.

Blogs are web pages that can be easily updated with postings and responses. These are of a public nature so these sites will be where we post what we want to share with the world.

Our first assignment will be a project related to safe use of the Web. Students will study how to be safe and then create public service announcements for public consumption. When complete they will be aired on the school television program. They may also be posted on our class blog to be viewed by the audience on the web. This real audience should inspire students to do their best work. The quality of the work they do will be more important than the quantity.

Please read the following Terms and Conditions. If you agree, please sign and date and return to me by _.

Wiki/Blogging Terms and Conditions

1. Students using blogs and wikis are expected to act safely by keeping personal information out of their posts. You agree to not post or give out your family name, password, user name, email address, home address, school name, city, country or other information that could help someone locate or contact you in person. You may share your interests, ideas and preferences.

2. Students using blogs and wikis agree not to share their user name or password with anyone besides their teachers and parents. You agree to never log in as another student.

3. Students using blogs and wikis are expected to treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for your blogs and wikis. 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.

4. Student blogs and wikis are to be a forum for student expression. However, they are first and foremost a tool for learning, and as such will sometimes be constrained by the various requirements and rules of classroom teachers. Students are welcome to post on any school-appropriate subject using standard English and avoiding use of text speak.

5. Students’ blogs and wikis are to be vehicles for collaboration and for sharing student writing with real audiences. Most visitors to your blogs and wikis who leave comments will leave respectful, helpful messages. If you receive a comment that makes you feel uncomfortable or is not respectful, tell your teacher right away. Do not respond to the comment.

6. Students using blogs and wikis take good care of the computers by not attempting to circumvent the security by accessing a proxy server.

7. Students who do not abide by these terms and conditions and those in the WSD Acceptable Use Policy may lose their opportunity to take part in this project which will result in a zero on those parts of the project which are not complete. In addition the student may be subject to administrative disciplinary action which may include a warning, a detention, suspension and/or loss of internet privileges.

I have read and understood these blogging and wiki terms and conditions. I agree to uphold them.

student’s signature:_date:

parent’s signature: __date:__ __