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Anyone have social software policies in place already?

Submitted by hollyristau on Mon, 2007-03-12 13:49.

A message came across one of my library listservs this morning:

A teacher in the Metronet Information Literacy Project has been targeted on
a Facebook site. The offending student deleted the page, using his cell
phone,
while a school administrator was speaking to the class. The teacher is
quite upset and contacted me for information in how to proceed.
I am aware of 1st Amendment issues, etc. and of the controversy surrounding
what schools can and cannot control, but am wondering what policies
folks have in place and how these situations are being resolved.

I'd be interested in seeing a sample policy also..

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Phew. This is out of my

Submitted by dsalo on Mon, 2007-03-12 14:26.

Phew. This is out of my sphere, so I can't help -- hope somebody else can.

I would incline to treat this by analogy, though. What would happen if the same student had wallpapered the community in flyers containing the same words/images?

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Pretty amazing.  It

Submitted by matthewmurrey on Mon, 2007-03-12 19:58.

Pretty amazing.  It definitely recommends taking a screen shot and saving it of any offending computer messages, posts, websites etc.  (Think of Rep. Foley IM's to the congressiona interns). 

In surfing around for this class, I saw one high school blog where the teacher posted a notice at the lead of the blog reminding students that the blog was a school blog and (as on school grounds) the rules of the school applied there too.

That the offender deleted it with a cell phone is pretty darn slick...

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This is the best answer that

Submitted by hollyristau on Thu, 2007-03-15 01:39.

This is the best answer that was posted on that list serv (my opinion!)

The following document from my files was done for the South Central
Kansas Library System as part of its "Kan-Safe" project.  Although its
focus is on Kansas, Dr. Aftab's overview offers a comprehensive
overview, including federal laws, through 2005.  At a minimum, it's
useful as a framework for discussion as a school reviews and updates its
Internet Use Policy for students and staff. 

Dr. Parry Aftab, "Kids Online in Schools: Risk Management and the Law,"
2005.
http://kan-safe.info/downloads/KidsOnline.pdf 

The document is unpaged, unfortunately, but I suggest going to the
"Off-School Websites" section for information about teacher bashing."
Included is a useful overview by subject of legal cases involving this
type of cyberbullying.  

The "Cyberbullying and Schools" section has information about "What is
the school's role in this?" The "Social-Networking Websites and Blog
Profiles" section also deals with teacher bashing. 

Information about the "Kan-safe" project is available at
http://kan-safe.info.  
 

Nancy Walton, State Library Programs Specialist

State Library Services, MDE

 

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