Online etiquette

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As kids start to develop their online presence, it's important for parents to lay the ground rules for exploring the internet and becoming a responsible user. While it's easy (too easy, really) to say thoughtless things over chat, it's vital that we teach kids to think before doing anything online. This becomes especially relevant when they're young and will need quality guidance to navigate the online world as a good digital citizen. Digital etiquette is important to teach, as kids need to…

A romance author friend of mine received a friend request on Facebook last night from someone she’d never interacted with, but she accepted the request anyway. A short time later, she received a PM basically saying the new friend had just finished the rough draft of her first adult short story and could the author...

Netiquette, a social code that defines “good” online behavior is something to keep in mind during your online course interactions.

There is no rule book on what to post or not post online but there are great recommendations of what you should think twice about before posting online.

Thank you to HS teacher Ginny V., for sharing these tips. The video is especially helpful to HS and MS students and fun to watch.

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Defining appropriate behavior for interactions among online students helps to create a positive and respectful learning environment. The aim of education is the intellectual, personal, social, and ethical development of the individual. The educational process is ideally conducted in an environment that encourages reasoned discourse, intellectual honesty, openness to constructive change, and respect for the rights of all individuals. –Student Code of Conduct Image Credit: Stephen Valdivia…

Use this FREE online etiquette template to help your student meetings run smoothly! Share it with students in advance and display it on your screen as a reminder while waiting for the meeting to begin.Online meetings used to be for the office, now they are for the classroom. With the sudden move to distance learning this year, the education world was turned upside down over a weekend. Google Meets or Zoom meetings became a daily norm for many students and teachers around the world. Most…