Sample from PBWorks: The X School District realizes that part of 21st century learning is adapting to the changing methods of communication. The importance of teachers, students and parents engaging, collaborating, learning, and sharing in these digital environments is a part of of 21st century learning . To this aim, X School District has developed the following guideline to provide direction for instructional employees, students and the school district community when participating in online social media activities. Whether or not an employee chooses to participate in a blog, wiki, online social network or any other form of online publishing or discussion it is his or her own decision. Free speech protects educators who want to participate in social media, but the laws and courts have ruled that schools can discipline teachers if their speech, including online postings, disrupts school operations. The X School District social media guidelines encourage employees to participate in online social activities.

Social/digital media policy for the Charleston County School district.

While Facebook and MySpace are popular among students in Anderson County, you're not likely to see many teachers on the social networking sites. At least three school districts in Anderson County discourage teachers from having social networking sites at all. In Williamston-based Anderson School District 1, teachers are "strongly discouraged" from having social networking accounts, said Jane Harrison, spokeswoman for the district.

Both the Collier and Lee County school districts have bullying policies on their books. Both are similar, and define bullying as "systematically and chronically inflicting physical hurt or psychological distress on one or more students or employees." But the Collier district is ready to take it a step further, and on Monday, the district will host a community forum on social media. When the school has an issue with social media, Blackmon said, the students are talked to individually by a guidance counselor and-or administrator. The Attorney General's Office also sends a representative to discuss the dangers of social media, adding the school will have an assembly for students at the end of the year on this issue.

By now, we've all heard the concerns about social media in the K-12 setting. The fears of teachers revealing their personal lives of Facebook. The worry of what can be accessed and posted on YouTube, revealing the good, bad, and ugly of the 21st century classroom. Even ongoing tweets about both policy and practice in the classroom or the central office. The concern has grown so significant that many school districts have policies banning the use of social media, even erecting firewalls to ban access to sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter with LEA computers or through LEA-based Internet connections.

Ogden School District may be one of the next districts to propose a policy that would ban students and teachers from connecting on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Granite School District officials already proposed a similar policy in hopes of preventing inappropriate relationships between students and teachers or other faculty members.

A Utah school district wants teachers and students to keep their distance when it comes to social networking on the Web. Many schools in Utah already have social networking policies in place, but Granite is the first to take so clear a stand. The Ogden School District already prevents employees and students from using any social media sites while school is in session.

Looking at the negatives of social media: A few states say that school conduct codes must explicitly prohibit off-campus cyberbullying; others imply it; still others explicitly exclude it. Some states say that local districts should develop cyberbullying prevention programs but the states did not address the question of discipline. Judges are flummoxed, too, as they wrestle with new questions about protections on student speech and school searches. Can a student be suspended for posting a video on YouTube that cruelly demeans another student? Can a principal search a cellphone, much like a locker or a backpack?

This is a reserach brief focusing on a district-sponsored professional development program for teachers to provide progressive steps towards the full implementation of technology in the classroom.

This research brief addresses the role of technology in the classroom. It's short, but raises some good points.

This is a research brief/information capsule from my local school district. It discusses the importance of global education, and on page 6 speaks directly to the issue of the use of the internet in this context. Also provides links to many internet programs/resources on pg. 9.

"It is the responsibility of the school district to provide its students with opportunities to continue their lessons outside of the classroom," says Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho. "Our children will need to be technologically savvy to thrive in the third millennium. Links to Learning emphasizes the principles that will propel our children to academic success."