Archive for 'Law & Ethics'
Schools should consider collapsing multiple editorial policies into one media policy
Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
As scholastic media staffs begin integrating the web into their everyday routine, it’s becoming more and more evident that to be most effective, school programs should not be seen as individual mediums, but as a media program. As a result, editorial policies should begin to follow this shift in thinking. Instead of having a separate [...]
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RTDNA releases Social Media and Blogging Guidelines
Posted on 09. Jun, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Carol Knopes posted a message on the RTDNF High School Journalism Project Teacher Listserv earlier this week pointing people to RTDNA’s Social Media and Blogging Guidelines. It’s a really nice piece that is made to print and use in a classroom (or newsroom obviously) for one great lesson on ethics. The guidelines are broken into [...]
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What to do if your district won’t let you host your website yourself
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by Jim Streisel.
An adviser I taught at a recent multimedia workshop last year emailed me with a plea for help. Here’s what she wrote: “My district is making me shut our WordPress site down. Apparently our district policy states that we aren’t allowed to use sites outside of our own servers. (I didn’t know about this policy [...]
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Have a plan in place for covering tragedy
Posted on 17. Feb, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
On the evening of Jan. 21, I sent my entire staff the full text of Paul Kandell’s article “Preparing for the Unimaginable,” which was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Adviser Update. I had read it before, but I happened to stumble upon it again and, for whatever reason, felt the need to forward [...]
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Cyberbullying and teaching digital media awareness
Posted on 29. Nov, 2010 by Jonathan Rogers.
Student digital publications are facing grave and valid concerns from administrators and parents about the new wild world of the internet. To go online brings up growing concerns of cyberbullying and civility. Educating students on how to use the internet responsibly are professors like Dr. Patchin from the Cyber Bullying Research center who also teaches [...]
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Goodman Discusses the SPLC, FERPA and the Student Media
Posted on 08. Nov, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
In a recent email on the JEA Listserv, Mark Goodman gave a nice, succinct explanation of FERPA and how it relates to the student media, summarizing content from the SPLC. FERPA is a blockade many staffs run into as administrators use it to say everything from photos can’t run online to student names can’t be [...]
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Comment policy evolution: Why you can’t just set it and forget it
Posted on 04. Nov, 2010 by Michelle Balmeo.
Like your publication, your comment policy must evolve. Three years ago, when our staff first went online, we didn’t have a comment policy. Instead, we simply copied the letter policy from the print newspaper. It read: We strive to report accurately and will correct any significant error. If you believe such an error has been [...]
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Immediacy, accuracy questioned in today’s on-line news
Posted on 07. Aug, 2010 by Michelle Harmon.
After reading Senator Joe McCarthy’s recent biography, I was haunted by his desire for power and willingness to wreak havoc on people’s lives to obtain it. I kept wondering how his ascension would have looked in a digital world? Dubbed a young-adult picture book by reviewers, the 270-page life story, “The Rise and Fall of [...]
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New York Times article discusses online speech due to cyberbullying cases
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
Online cyber bullying off-campus is challenging the balance of free speech online and in schools. Administrators dealing with upset parents are put in positions of exploring disruptions at school caused by mocking YouTube videos and Facebook comments from teens in their critical years of social development. Parents are seeking support from school administrators to resolve [...]
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