As the school magazine blog gets underway I have been asked what the rules are. So I’m doing a little bit of research.
The East Side High School in New York has a blogging policy, but as I read their site now on a Sunday night I notice on the home page is a nasty post with aggresive flaming and bad language from yesterday (Saturday). Obviously posts are moderated after they appear on the site and not before; and no moderator has been able to see it yet. But what will they say to a school governor who happens to discover the site tonight?
Such a scenario might push back the adoption of blogging in a school for years and this is one of the main reasons that I chose to introduce blogging into school in this walled garden kind of way.
The other issue is child protection. The East Side blog has individual photos of children showing their first names. I can see in these days of nervousness, in the UK, this might be considered too much. Supporting this view, The Downs FM, a Primary School podcast showed hand drawn caricatures of the contributing children, presumably images that they and their friends could recognise but someone outside the school could not.
The research continues
