Purpose: A schools' presence on the World Wide Web portion
on the Internet should accomplish these purposes:
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Serve as a source of
factual, positive information about the schools. In today's electronic
world the Internet is an excellent public relations/communication
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Provide educational information
and opportunities to the students, staff, administration, and
patrons of the school community. |
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Enhance communication
between the schools and the community. |
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With these purposes in mind, the following guidelines are set
to provide direction in publishing for the Internet.
Staff member internet e-mail addresses may be listed, but
only with the staff member's permission.
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Content published by
any school should be reviewed and approved by the building principal
(or designee) prior to being published on the Internet. |
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Pictures of individuals (students, staff, or patrons) should
be published only if permission of the individual or parent /guardian
is secured first.
Crowd
scenes or pictures of individuals that do not visually identify
a person may be iiiiiused without
permission.
It is suggested
that if student pictures are used, either no name or only first
names are iiiiiused.
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Links to other sites
can be very helpful and educational, but they can also lead to
inappropriate sites for K-12 educational purposes. Therefore,
links to sites other than educational or governmental (.edu or
.k12) should be established only after careful review by the
building principal (or designee). Links to personal pages should
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Schools may not be able to provide
private e-mail for students. However, many students already have
Internet e-mail addresses and free Internet e-mail accounts are
available those having Internet access. It is recommended that
students' e-mail addresses not be published. |
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Staff member internet e-mail addresses
may be listed, but only with the staff member's permission. |
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These guidelines are only to help get started in this process.
As experience grows, it is likely these guidelines will be modified.
As a help to schools publishing on the internet, we refer
to the following Internet sites:
Yale
Web Style Manual (very scholarly)
Bellingham
Public Schools Design Tenets For WWW Sites iiiii(practical)
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