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 * 7-D-1 Teaching Safety Education Activities by Sue Nelson **


 * Objective**: Students will learn to create, read, and respond to classroom blogs.
 * Technology**: Blogger for blogs & student lap top computers
 * Brief Explanation**: Students will join a classroom blog using an email the clearly shows their name. These blogs will be used as follow up for class discussion, responding to various movie scenes shown in class, and responding to guest speakers in the classroom.
 * Expectations**: Students are expected to contribute insightful commentary, raise questions, spell check their entries, use appropriate tone and language choices.
 * Steps in the Process**:
 * 1) Students will log onto blogger and create their student identity that demonstrates their name clearly.
 * 2) Students will select a blog topic from the teacher provided prompts.
 * 3) Students will blog at least TWO times in response to the teacher prompt and/or classmates comments.
 * 4) Students will read other blog posts and complete an online checklist to assure the posts of an assigned classmate are appropriate and meeting the rubric designed for blogs. RUBRIC for Blogs Samples
 * 5) Students will verbally review what to do when inappropriate content is found.


 * Inappropriate Content**: Students who choose inappropriate content to post to the class blog will have their blog deleted by the instructor, attend an after school retraining session about proper blogging, and create a new blog id. When students encounter inappropriate content, they are to email the instructor to notify her of the problem and include a link to the blog.

Dear Families,
 * Blog Lettter **

Your student will be asked to participate in ongoing "blogging" throughout this semester. A weblog, or blog as they are often nicknamed, is a web page that is created by students. Both teachers and other classroom students can read and add comments to the blog.

As blog facilitator, my role is to prompt student discussions, encourage high level thinking, and provide additional commentary, feedback, and instruction as needed on the blog. Your student’s roles, as well as expectations, are listed below:

· Students will be provided with procedures on how to log on the blog. Each student must choose a blog name that makes clear who they are. This is done both for safety purposes as well as for grading purposes. · Students will be expected to blog both in and outside of class. Blogging requires internet access. Students are welcome to access computers before school, during tutorial, or after school in my classroom or the library computer lab. Students may also choose to blog from home. · Students are to write using quality writing skills. This includes proper grammar, spelling, appropriate word choices etc. Typing a draft in Word will allow student work to be grammar and spell checked; then they can simply cut and paste their entries. · Inappropriate comments, including any swearing, rudeness, disrespect to others, or other inappropriate commentary as deemed by the instructor will be deleted, and the student removed from the blog. Prior to blogging again, the student will be required to attend an after school retraining session to review blog protocols and be re-entered on the blog. · Please be aware that safety is a shared concern for us all. Students should use only first names in their blogs. **No references to school or location, no email addresses, no photos or other sensitive information are to appear on the blog.** · Student blogs are part of their regular classroom assessments. Points are earned for required participation as per rubrics which will be distributed to students at the start of each blogging session.


 * Blog PERMISSION LETTER** (Please read and sign)

1. Students using the blog agree to abide by all safety rules. You agree not to post of give out family name, passwords, user names, email address or other information that could help someone locate or contact you in person. The blog is a safe location to share your ideas, comments, and thinking about pertinent course topics. 2. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students agree NEVER to log on as another student or share passwords. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">3. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students agree to be respectful in choices of what they right about and to use appropriate language and tone at all times. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">4. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students agree to stay focused on the school appropriate subject matter. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">5. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students agree to inform the instructor is at any time they receive inappropriate or uncomfortable comments on the blog. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">6. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students are expected to take proper care of district equipment, which includes using only approved sites, not downloading or installing any software, and not clicking on ads or competitions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">7. <span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';">Students who do not follow these rules may lose the chance to take part in blogging.


 * //My student and I have read the above blogging terms and conditions. We agree to follow these guidelines//**.

Student signature: Date:

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