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Social Media Guidelines Parent Permission Form for Student Participation

Dear Parents:

This year, to help our students develop their reading and writing skills as well as cultivate our understanding of different people and cultures; our students are participating in using a variety of social media applications (blogs, wikis, podcasts) via the Internet. When students are able to safely share their ideas with an audience broader than just our classroom, often they can discover their voice and become even more motivated to learn, communicate and share their ideas effectively with others.

Often we hear negative stories in the mainstream media about the ways young people use the Internet and social media websites. One of the reasons we are participating in some collaborative social media projects this year is to help our students learn through experiences, ways to safely use the Internet to share information and collaborate. X School District is writing to let you know what we are planning to do, and to obtain your permission for your child to participate.

__Planned Activities__: We are planning to use several different social media tools to let our students safely share their work and ideas with other students as well as with our school community. (You!) A list of the district recommended websites is located at []. We encourage you to visit the site to learn more the district’s social media guidelines for students, teachers and parents. Projects may be shared privately with other classes over the Internet and with parents, and also may be shared publicly on the Internet. To protect student privacy and ensure safety throughout all projects we will:
 * 1) Only use student first names, if names are used at all, in identifying student work and ideas
 * 2) Not use pictures of individual students, identified by full name
 * 3) Only use GROUP pictures of students which do not identify individuals by name if we share pictures of students working in class.

If you have questions about our projects please contact your child’s teacher(s). Teachers will be in contact with you with specific to share links to specific projects as we create them! Please complete, sign and return the bottom of this form to me as soon as possible. Thanks!

______ YES, my child has my permission to participate in teacher-moderated, Internet-based social media projects this year. My child may share recordings on the Internet and participate in the planned collaborative activities outlined here.

______ NO, my child does not have permission to participate in these activities.

Date:

Student Name: Student Signature:

Parent Name: Parent Signature: