We’re Blogging!

Hello Tech Explorers and Parents of Tech Explorers,

We are embarking on a most exciting journey. Each technology explorer will be creating their own blog. Your blog will be your place on the web to showcase your talents and interests, to write about your thoughts and ideas, and to connect with other students around the world.In this class you will have the opportunity to explore whatever digital tools you most enjoy. Because we will be posting our blogs on the Internet to a worldwide audience, we must make sure that we understand how to keep ourselves and our friends safe online. By joining tech explorers we must agree to follow the tech explorers’ code of safe online conduct.

Tech Explorers’ Code of Safe Online Conduct

• I will not post pictures of myself or my friends on my blog. I will use an avatar to represent myself. If I want to post pictures of myself or people I know on my blog I will use a filter to change the picture so it is hard to identify.
• I will not use my last name on my blog.
• I will be careful about sharing too much personal information. If I am not sure if it is ok to say something, I will ask my teacher. For example, I like baseball and want to write a lot about baseball on my blog. That is fine. But I shouldn’t write the full name of my team and where and when we practice.
• I will not put my email address or my home address or phone number or other contact information on my blog.
• Anything I post on my blog – words, pictures, video or other projects -will be something I would be happy to have my parents or teachers see. I will use appropriate language and keep in mind at all times that I am representing myself and my school to the whole world.
• I will use images that I create myself or that I know are from shared, copyright-free sources. When I use other people’s words or images I will give them credit.