Acceptable+Use

=Acceptable Use and Ethical Behavior=

Be sure to check your school and district policies regarding use of social media tools.

Policies and Guidelines
[|School AUP 2.0] is a wiki created by David Warlick to gather sample acceptable use policies developed by educators using social media tools.

Youth Radio offers a [|Blog Netiquette] page with dos, don'ts, and response stems.

Edublogs offers extensive support to teachers planning blogs for student contributions, including sample guidelines and how to help students write better comments.

Build a Blog wiki page offers links to examples of blogging rules for students.

Twitter rules - examples and posters

In [|Creating and Connecting], the National School Boards Association recommends that districts reexamine their policies on social networking to be able to take advantage of these tools while teaching and maintaining student safety.

Safety
CTAP IV has developed an extensive set of [|resources for Cybersafety], including classroom posters and PowerPoint presentations that can be downloaded and used with staff, students and parents.

Copyright
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.

School librarian Joyce Valenza's Copyright Copyright-friendly wiki provides links to sources of images and sounds for use in student projects.

The [|Creative Commons] licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others. Creative Commons offers a variety of licensing and contract options including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. [|Jamendo] is great source for music with Creative Commons licensing. Students who use music from Jamendo in their projects must credit the source. Flickr allows you to limit your searches to photos that have a Creative Commons license.

Here are 30+ places to find Creative Commons Media.