Blogging rules and agreement

Ms. Collins’ Class Math Blog Agreement

Internet safety is very important. In order to participate in our math problem solving blogs,

please read the following list of agreements with your child. Please sign and date this

agreement and return to Ms. Collins. Thanks for your cooperation!

1. I will never post any information more personal than my first name nor will I post pictures

of myself.

2. I will not plagiarize, instead I will expand on others' ideas and give credit where it is due.

3. I will use language appropriate for school.

4. I will not insult my fellow students or their ideas, questions, or writing.

5. I will only post things that I am comfortable with everyone seeing.

6. I will not be afraid to express my ideas.

7. I will use constructive comments or questions.

8. I will try to spell everything correctly

9. I will not bully others in my blog posts or in my comments

10. I will only post photos and graphics which are school appropriate and necessary to explain

or enhance my questions, ideas, hints or solutions to the math problems.

11. I will not spam (including, but not limited to meaningless messages, mass messages,

and repetitive messages)

12. I will only post comments on posts that I have fully read, rather than just skimmed.

13. I will respect the public nature of online information, and in doing so, I will respect the

wishes of my fellow students for keeping their information (full name, etc.) private.

Infractions of these rules will lead to the following consequences in order of severity and

number of offense:

1. Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction(individual students, one core class, or

whole blogging community),warning by teacher, and editing or deletion of offending

post/comment.

2. Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction(individual students, one core class, or

whole blogging community),temporary loss of blogging privileges (duration of quarter),

editing or deletion of offending post/comment.

3. Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one core class, or

whole blogging community), permanent loss of blogging privileges(duration of school

year), editing or deletion of offending post/comment.

Student's Signature _______________________________ date_____________

Parent Signature__________________________________ date_____________

Students will be participating in a class blog for mtath class and will not need to share any

personal information including an email address. I will provide students with a universal

username and password. Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Thank you for

your continued

support!

Sincerely,

Ms. Collins

bcollins@nvusd.k12.ca.us

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