While attending the "Teachers Teaching Teachers" Independent Schools Conference this past Saturday at Hockaday, I received some insights about my concerns about student safety/privacy and the internet.
Greenhill, Hockaday, and St. Marks all have a parent log-in in order to access their teacher pages, such as www.home.hockaday.org.
That way elementary teachers can put video, photos and blogs of students with their names, without fear of public access or violating privacy and identity protection issues of minors. It completely eliminates their worry as teachers and enables them to be as creative and spontaneous as they would like to be with technology integration projects.
I love that! I wonder if Parish is moving in the same direction and how soon?
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I know that on our home page we have a section for "community login". I know that parents will have log-ins to see the more "private" things pertaining to our school. I'm not sure if our web pages will move under that section? Maybe we will have a different section for student work and videos? Right now, I know they post a lot of videos in MS...wonder if they have any parent problems?
That is being considered at Parish, and a secure parent portal in some form will be coming soon. One thing to consider, however, is that our web site is a very powerful marketing tool, both for prospective families as well as current families making decisions about whether they want to remain at Parish or consider another school for the remainder of their child(ren)'s education. I've been very frustrated trying to find things on other schools' sites that are hidden behind a password, and there are too many great things happening here to not be shared with those outside our walls.
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