Tag: Privacy

  • Protect Student Information from Surveys

    At the beginning of each year, I usually receive an onslaught of survey material for my students to fill out.   These surveys are not supplied by the school or district, and usually query students about their backgrounds, interests and future plans. While some teachers diligently have students complete them immediately, others simply use this material…

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  • Student Discussion Boards

    My district has recently installed Microsoft Sharepoint.  This is a dynamic tool (albeit from the MotherShip) that allows me to create and control groups where users can collaborate though shared documents, discussions boards, blogs, and wikis (and many other features). My initial observations of Sharepoint made me realize that it has a distinct Microsoft footprint…

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  • You Are What You Post

    You Are What You Post by Michelle Conlin This Yahoo Finance article discusses the fact that “that there is no such thing as an eraser on the Internet.” In times where our students are posting personal and provacative information about themselves in healthy does to sites such as MySpace and Xanga, this surely offers a…

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