Bad++Blog

Bad Blog Suffolk Schools
 * Staff blogs
 * Three areas of concern
 * Risk - afraid of what people say
 * Easty to use and cheap to manage
 * Productivity _people wasting time
 * Safety and controls
 * We don't see the instructional value
 * Need to develop a clear instructional focus
 * Foundational policies and behavior
 * Safe practices for students
 * Bobbie eisenstocks's rules of the road
 * AUP in place - special permission
 * Have a bullet in the AUP regarding when you blog you speak for the district
 * Infrastructure and system config
 * Wordpress
 * Run on a linux server and Apache and SQL and PHP
 * Simple to install
 * No unauthorized blogs
 * Tie blog to staff accounts with active directory
 * Plugin that points to active directory
 * Active staff members have blogs
 * No web warehouses
 * Set allowed file-types and 50 MB quotas
 * Currently, biggest blogs have some videos, etc. - 16 mb
 * Quota is only for files other than the text part of the blog
 * Blog owner's manual - setup
 * Emphasizes a professional presence
 * Reviewed themes for appropriateness
 * Some themes required linking back to the creator's site…took some of those off
 * Need to screen the themes
 * Enable commnet moderation
 * Anon or not?
 * All comments require approval
 * Early Apdopters established techniques
 * ITRTs develop welcome workshops
 * Posting Do's and don’t's
 * Clearly identify yourself
 * No numbers
 * Student information
 * No promotional endorsements
 * Professional rapport
 * Invisibility of sarcasm
 * Discomfort of familiarity
 * Monitor
 * Developed stie-wide RSS feeds
 * Is a plug-in that provides the ability for system monitoring of the blog entries
 * [|http://blogs.spsk12.net]
 * Presentation handouts are on Chris's site
 * Chris Blaug