Guidelines

Fraser Primary School Blogging Guidelines

We are excited to use a blog this year to share our amazing learning with other classes within the school and with your parents, carers and grandparents. However, it is an expectation that all students abide by these guidelines when using our blog. In the Posting Comments Guidelines, the questions below the statements are to help you decided what is appropriate and not appropriate to post. Any posts that do not meet the guidelines will be deleted and addressed with the individual student.

Safety Guidelines

Blogging is a lot of fun, however internet safety is a critical component of maintaining a success blog. It is important that all uses of the blog familiarise themselves with these guidelines and adhere to them at all times.

ü  Students’ initials, photos, work, video and school name MAY be included on the blog.

ü  Students’ surnames, address, email address, phone number, specific plans, date of birth and other personal information WILL NOT be included on the blog.

ü  Posts written by the students will be checked by the teacher before they are published on the blog.

ü  All comments must be approved by a teacher before they are included on the blog.

ü  Students will be encouraged the comment on other class/student blogs with teacher/parents supervision.

ü  All students must have parental permission to comment or post on the class blog/other blogs and have their photo, videos and work appear on the blog

ü  Parents who leave comments are asked to use their first name only so as to not identify their child. E.g. Please identify yourself in comments as “Catherine – JCD’s mum”.

ü  All comments must be polite, respectful and courteous.

ü  Others’ work, images or music videos will not be used without permission and attribution.

ü  Parents are asked to proofread comments that students write on blogs at home.

Posting Comments Guidelines

1. Only post things that you would want everyone (in school, at home, in other countries) to know.
Ask yourself: Is this something I want everyone to see?

2. Do not share personal information.
Ask yourself: Could someone find me (in real life) based on this information?

3. Think before you post.
Ask yourself: What could be the consequences of this post?

4. Know who you’re communicating with.
Ask yourself: Who is going to look at this, and how are they going to interpret my words?

5. Consider your audience and that you’re representing Fraser Primary School.
Ask yourself: Do I have a good reason/purpose to do this?

6. Know how to give constructive feedback.
Ask yourself: What will I cause by writing this post?

7. Treat other people the way you want to be treated.
Ask yourself: Would I want someone to say this to me?

8. Use appropriate language and proper grammar and spelling.
Ask yourself: Would I want this post to be graded for proper grammar and spelling?

9. Only post information that you can verify is true (no gossiping).
Ask yourself: Is this inappropriate, immature or bullying?

10. Anytime you use media from another source, be sure to properly cite the creator of the original work.
Ask yourself: Who is the original creator of this work?