thinking about guidelines?

At the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009 there was a workshop by Karen Montgomery called R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy?:

"Social media guidelines encourage educators to participate in social computing and strive to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability. Teachers who must hide their online activity because of nonexistent social media guidelines risk losing their jobs and reputations. A better approach is to collaboratively develop a policy that is acceptable to administrators, school board members, teachers and parents allowing for involvement in the global conversation in which many are contributing."

She has provided a resource list of guidelines and stories about the challenges teachers face when incorporating social media into learning.

Karen works in children's education but some of these resources may be relevant to creating guidelines for adult educators as well.

Karen has also created a Facebook group Social Media Guidelines for Educators.