school students inviting faculty to be friends on Facebook. We just
recently put out an email reminding teachers and other staff about
professionalism when being friends with current students. We asked that
they treat the online relationship like they would at school. We
discouraged their being friends with current students, but we did not
totally ban the practice. =20
We actually encourage being friends with alumni, so they can stay in
contact, but again remind them about professionalism on their social
networking site.
A lot of our teachers are friends with parents (current and former). We
have not put out a policy on this....yet.
The above policies all have to do with Facebook which we don't use with
our students. However, other social networking sites like Nings that we
do use with our students, we ask that the teachers create an account
that is just used for school, and that the accounts the students have
are also used only for school. Students are welcome to create their own
Ning sites, if their parents say it is okay, but the site they have at
school can only be used for school work.
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
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Subject: Faculty and Social Networking Sites
Hello,
I have been asked to chair a committee that will develop our school's
position on the use social networking sites for faculty members. I
know that there are many issues to disucss--teachers friending students,
parents, etc. If you have a policy that
would be willing to share, then I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance for your help, =20
Whitney Miller
Academic Technology Director
Hutchison School
901-507-2467
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