Internet Policies and protocols

Nag 5 Publication online and on television by students and staff

Definitions: Images (could include still and moving images in any digitised form)

SchoolWork (could include any form of student work which is able to be published in a digital format; writing, art, audio, video, animation, photography, scanned etc)

Pt England School Digital Learning statement:

"The Web 2 environment offers many opportunities to learning and teaching at Pt England School. We intend to continue getting the most out of the positive aspects and to exercise caution in the areas where we observe little education benefit or which may compromise student safety.

The bottom line in all that we do at Pt England School is 'What is best for the children?'. In view of this, we explore Web 2 environments which will enhance learning and teaching and foster our eLearning goals of personal voice, authentic audience and students as creators of content rather than consumers. Many Web 2 environments also promote the goals of our Manaiakalani work around using eLearning to improve student literacy outcomes."

Board of Trustees

"Ultimately the BOT of a school is legally responsible for the conduct of its school, including the operation of the school's website" Guidelines for Schools, 2000

Parent Community

1. Have the right to make an informed decision about the publication of their own children's images and schoolwork in online spaces and other media such as television
2. The policies of the school and actions of the teaching staff should reflect the majority wishes of the parent community
3. From time to time a parent or legal guardian, in partnership with the senior management, may agree to publication outside of the guidelines below eg when a student is interviewed by the media

Senior Management

1. Establish policy guidelines that reflect the wishes of the parent community
2. Inform and update the BOT
3. Manage the outworking of these policies with teaching staff and students
4. Ensure permission is granted for internet use and publication of students work online and on television, in writing by parents/legal guardians on enrolment

Teaching Staff

There are two aspects this policy covers for teaching staff; teachers working with students and publishing their images and schoolwork online, teachers publishing online themselves as educators

1. Teachers professional responsiblity when working with students and publishing their images and schoolwork online

• Understand and acknowledge the rights of students
  • The student owns the copy right of their own artistic and literary works
  • Policy set by BOT > senior management in relation to students rights should be observed
  • 'Right of Integrity' ie protection from derogatory treatment of their work
  • Right to say 'no' to their work being published or to request its removal
• Ensure the purpose for using a particular environment is clear
  • to students
  • senior management
  • users of the online space in the wider community
• To ensure safety procedures are observed
  • students will only be identified by first name and class or year
  • students have had formal class lessons preceding the introduction of any new online environment around the issues outlined in the student policy and relevant to the new space being introduced.
  • teacher is present when students are online at school
• Ensure the content of the work published
  • Reflects our dedication to quality
  • Uses standard English (where English is being used) to support the "language of success"
  • Is within the three guidelines (of Guidelines for Schools, 2000) and is either;
    • to educate in accordance with the NZC
    • to encourage the student to participate in the school and wider community
    • to promote the school in the wider community
  • NB: this includes widgets and third party gadgets embedded eg sidebar gadgets in blogger
• Take responsibility for all material published online in spaces they have authorised for student work to appear. This includes:
  • Having an RSS feed (where available) of changes to the space that is monitored daily
  • Checking student content that is being published to ensure it reflects this policy
  • Specifically monitoring comments made on the sites
  • Only publish student images and schoolwork on sites that have been agreed to by senior management
  • Video content is only to be posted online on iTunes, teachertube, Flickr, the school website and class blogs. Other sites need prior approval from Russell.
• Before considering implementing any Web 2 environments with a class the teacher must have explored a sufficient number of similar sites to have gained familiarity with the 'genre'.

2. To support teachers in carrying this out

• All online accounts set up of any kind which include Pt England School students will:
  • be owned by the teacher or school (or in some cases the parent) , NOT by a student
  • use the school domain email address; either teacher@ptengland.school.nz or room@ptengland.school.nz
  • where possible will have dual ownership with SMT or a generic account eg pesblog@ptengland.school.nz
• All online accounts which hold images or schoolwork of Pt England students must be recorded in the secure Google spreadsheet set up for this including; URL, login name, password

3. When a teacher leaves the school and is no longer managing accounts set up for students the online spaces must be left secure

• Another teacher designated to assume responsibility or
• Ability to comment removed or
• Site and material removed

2. Teachers professional responsibility as adult educators in the online environment

• When interacting with students the teacher will
  • demonstrate the clear purpose for online interaction as a teacher on student centred online spaces ie. giving feedback/feedforward contributing to their learning
  • refrain from interacting with students on non-education related social networking sites eg Bebo, Facebook
• When interacting online with other adults using the Pt England School domain name or in any way identifying as an employee of Pt England School the teacher will
• be personally responsible for any content referring to Pt England School that the teacher posts online
• ensure that the use of the internet or email does not in any way bring Pt England School into disrepute, including expressing any opinion online which could reflect on or be attributed to the school negatively.
• have permission from any staff member photographed or videoed before making their image public online or transporting it digitally outside the school.

Students

There are two aspects to this; Acceptable use policies for the students to understand and agree to, and Publication of student images and schoolwork

1. Acceptable use policies for the students to understand and agree to:

Pt England kids online:

• have a teacher present in the room when using the internet
• only go to sites the teacher knows about and has approved
• mostly use our own artwork and music
• if we need to use other people's work we ask first and acknowledge the author/owner
• know the right thing to do if we come across any inappropriate content, and follow the reminder on the wall on our netsafe poster
• use kind, caring and supportive words
• only use our first names and class to identify ourselves
• only edit posts and work we have created ourselves
• are the copy-righted owners of work we have created and published

2. Publication of student images and schoolwork:

Pt England students' images and schoolwork are published in multiples environments; online on television and in print media.

1. Television
   • PE.N.N. the Pt England News Network which plays on our in-house school television four days a week
   • Other Television channels which come into the school and require Management Release, Site Release and Individual Release prior to content leaving the school.
2. Online & Print
   • The Pt England School Website http://www.ptengland.school.nz
   • School blogs - where we celebrate and share our learning
   • Podcasts eg KPE Korero Pt England
   • Global projects we work on with teachers eg Rock Our World
   • Google Apps inside the Pt England domain
   • Other Web 2 sites the teachers have selected because they help us embed our work in our blogs and website
   • Corporate, media and charity channels
   • Corporate, charitable or media print channels

These last two require the same kind of release permissions as the TV ones. Pt England Staff need to be very mindful of requests for images and content and ensure that we have informed consent and the correct permissions each time.

NB: Policies for Primary/Intermediate are slightly different from college age students ie. Younger students have parents or legal guardians give permission for publication, college age students have to give permission themselves AND have parent permission