Blogger Rules

Hi Class,
We have been alerted through the English department to take a few precautions in our blog building:

1. Your full name should not be evident.

Some of you use your first name to identify your blog, "Jane's Page" and then your email address contains "jsmith@". So that you can figure out Jane Smith from your blog information. Change the name of your title page to something else "Writer's Corner", etc. so that you don't reveal your full name.

2. Do not put your picture up on the page. I said to introduce yourselves, but the English department does not want any pictures unless they are class pictures or images that are referenced.

3. If you post to your blog, music or videos. . make sure that they are free sites or your own videos and music that offer the embedded html. So, music by Creedance is copywrited and therefore off limits. I got "Silent Night" by Boyz 11 Men off a free site and the Line Rider is uploaded from a free site on You Tube.

4. Images should have the URL or who gave access to the image. . . . Nasa. .earth.
Soon, there will be a letter that you must take home to your parents to sign that lets gives you permission to blog and helps them understand what we are using it for as an extension to the classroom.

*Make sure that the content on your blog contains no objectionable content.