{"id":931,"date":"2010-08-13T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eat.scm.tees.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:06:59","slug":"social-media-use-policies-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2010\/08\/13\/social-media-use-policies-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media use, policies, guidelines…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the questions which was raised at Technology Enhanced Learning Working Group last term about anxieties – or whether we should be anxious – about the use of social media by students, staff and students and<\/em> staff together.<\/p>\n

On the whole, most members of the working group would much prefer to allow and to expect our staff and students to use their common sense in evaluating what they ought or ought not to be doing and behaving. Obviously, our colleagues working in FE have different issues because they are working with under eighteens and there are online safety issues involved with this group.<\/p>\n

A draft set of basic guidelines was produced by SSSL e-learning co-ordinator Mike Teague and circulated by the TELWG to University Learning & Teaching Committee which Schools may use if they wish or need to.<\/p>\n

As some extra background information on this hot potato of a topic, here are some links you might wish to check out specifically about the issue of Facebook ‘friending\u2019.<\/p>\n