Rules for Blogging
1. Please, no last names, addresses, IM screen names etc.
2. Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information there that you don’t want to reveal on your school blog.
3. If you want to write your opinion on a topic, make sure you’re not going to be offensive as you write it.
4. Always make sure you check over your post for spelling errors, grammar errors, and your use of words. Paste your post in a word processor and run spellcheck, or download a spellchecker for your browser.
5. Never disrespect someone else in your blog, whether it’s a person, an organization, or just a general idea. You don’t want someone making a stab at what you are passionate about; don’t do it to someone else.
6. Don’t write about other people without permission; if you can’t get their permission, use first names only. Never share someone else’s last name.
7. Watch your language! This is part of our school community. Language that is inappropriate in school is also inappropriate in your blog.
8. Make sure things you write about are factual. Don’t be posting about things that aren’t true. Link to your sources.
9. Keep it education-oriented. That means that you probably shouldn’t discuss your plans for the weekend, the last dance etc.
Adapted from http://patterson.edublogs.org/all-about-blogs/
November 27th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
[…] This isn’t much different from doing it with SuprGlu (in fact it may not be as elegant) but since it’s the first use of a public Google Reader page to collect a classroom full of student blog posts that I’ve seen, here’s a link to it. The posts are from a 6th grade social studies class whose teacher Mike Hetherington is “mother blogging” here and offers up some pretty good “rules for blogging,” a wiki, and some podcasts (though nothing recent.) […]
October 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
education is an essential part of everyone’s life.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
[…] blog for why he started to use blogging with his 6th grade students. While your there check out his Room 613 Student Blogs Rules for Blogging. What an amazing and purposeful way to introduce to pre-teens the ethics of living, writing, and […]