This is in our faculty/staff handbook:
Faculty and staff members are only to interact online with students in
school-sponsored "spaces." Interactions on CourseWeb, Hewitt e-mail, and
other Hewitt-sponsored online spaces are appropriate, while interactions
via commercial sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc, are not. If a
faculty or staff member is contacted by a student via non-Hewitt
channels, the corresponding division head should be notified.
Let me know if you have questions on how we got there,
arvind
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arvind s grover
Director of Technology
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th St
New York, NY 10021
T. (212) 994-2613
F. (212) 639-9366
E. agrover@hewittschool.org
W. www.hewittschool.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Dayton, Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:36 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: FW: faculty use of social networking sites
This is in our handbooks. I have a slightly different version for the
students.
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Social Use of Technology
Online social networking has become a huge concern for schools and
families. Websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, and other various
social networking/blog sites carry some responsibilities that require
community members to be careful with the type and content of information
posted. Users should take care that they do not post personal
information that can be accessed via these websites. Email addresses,
physical addresses; phone numbers, and personal photographs should never
be displayed in a public forum. Responsibility for personal safety
rests with the user. Community members should also be careful with
their "online relationships". Under no circumstances should a user ever
meet with an online friend. The Madeira School takes online safety
seriously, and any user who receives threatening or unwelcome
communications, or any other communications that give rise to concerns
about personal safety, should bring them to the attention of the
Director of Technology. In addition you should never post photographs
or personal information of any Madeira community member.
I also send out lovely articles as they come up.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/12/studentsteachers.online/index.html
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR200804
2702213_pf.html
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Jeff
From: Ademola Popoola [mailto:popoola@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:17 AM
To: Dayton, Jeff
Subject: Re: faculty use of social networking sites
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Jeff,
Thanks for sharing this info. Would you mind making available your
general guidelines for safe use of social networking?
Adem
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Dayton, Jeff <JDayton@madeira.org>
wrote:
Policy: The Madeira School has the expectation that adults are not
communicating or interacting with students via Social Networking Sites
such as MySpace or Facebook.
There are inherent risks that one takes as an individual when you
communicate with students in this manner. You are exposing the school
to potential liability as well as personal liability for any information
that you give or obtain through means outside of the school norms. You
also put yourself in the position of being responsible for rule breaking
that you observe through the conversations and photographs that you see
on student's pages.
The school provides a professional email account and Blackboard for
school sponsored
e-communication and the expectation is that you will only use these
means for appropriate adult-student communications. This is for
everyone's protection students and adults.
Included in our policy statement are general guidelines for safe use of
social networking. We have brought in speakers and I give the Social
Networking talk to all new faculty and staff during orientation.
Our AUP covers any unacceptable behavior as it relates to an online
presence.
Jeff Dayton
Director of Technology
The Madeira School
703-556-8342
jdayton@madeira.org
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Meyerson, Marilyn
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:05 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: faculty use of social networking sites
Do any schools have written guidelines regarding faculty's personal use
of
social networking sites such as My Space and Facebook? What ethical
guidance
do you offer to teachers on friending in cyberspace?
Many thanks,
Marilyn Meyerson
Head, Library and Technology
The Key School
<mmeyerson@keyschool.org>
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