4 B Provide instruction and modeling to the school community regarding digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information;

 4 B Provide instruction and modeling to the school community regarding digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information;


Students have worked within both Sakai and Haiku in discussion boards. I have spent a great deal of time instructing them regarding appropriate online etiquette , not using emoticons in a discussion board setting, rules for reacting to other students' posts. 

This  year students maintain a classroom literary blog.  Students set up their  blogs, set permissions, and  maintain appropriate blog posts  related to reading and their personal lives.  Student blogs are appropriately managed. Students have learned that their educational blogs are not Facebook, and therefore they have to post with appropriate language, spelling, and writing styles appropriate to this educational  medium.

I created a model blog for  classroom  postings where students have the opportunity to see my blog posts, using them as a writing model, as a scaffolded structure many of my students need.