Online publication of student images and work policy.

Objectives

The school uses a range of learning technologies to enhance student learning. These include electronic mail (email) and the internet. From time to time we publish on the schools Internet website www.titahibay.school.nz material for education purposes, to share the results of learning within the school community, and to promote the school within the wider community. This may include examples of students schoolwork and images of students and groups of students in activities at the school.

Images of students may include scanned digital or video images of them taking part in school or class activities.

There are three main reasons the school publishes student material online:

To educate the student in accordance with the national curriculum, including on the role and use of technology in society;

To encourage the student to be part of and participate in the school community;

To promote the school in the wider community.

Guideline 1

The school will publish the material only on its own website(www.titahibay.school.nz) and New Zealand based websites endorsed by the Ministry of Education, such as the Ministry of Education’s website The Online Learning Centre- Te Kete I purangi (www.tki.org.nz). The school may also recommend that student work, or the whole school website be available, be available through Te Kete Ipurangi.

GUIDELINE 2

The school publishes student material online for the following three purposes

To educate the student in accordance with the national curriculum, including the role and use of technology in society;

To encourage the student to be part of and participate in the school community

To promote the school in the wider community.

PRIVACY AND ONLINE PUBLISHING.

Parents and students should be aware that the school cannot control who has access to the information published on its internet website or other websites mentioned. In recognition of this, the school takes steps to safeguard the privacy of the students and to comply with the privacy act 1993.

Guideline 3

The school acknowledges that it cannot control who accesses the websites on which students’ images or materials is published or the copying , by visitors to these websites , of images of students and their work.  

Guideline 4

The school will identify students on the websites only by their first name and year at school. Students’ surnames, home addresses, and telephone numbers will not be available on the websites.

COPYWRITING AND ONLINE PUBLISHING

The school will also wants to publish original material that students create at school, including artwork, such as drawings and paintings, as well as stories, poems and other literary work. Original material created by students attracts protection under the copyright act 1994. The students own the copyright in their own artistic and literary work. The school will not publish the works on the internet without authorization in the form of a copyright license from the student. Given the age of students, the school has decided that it will not publish online any image of a student or work they have produced without the written permission of each student’s legal guardians.

Guideline 5

The school will not publish a student’s image or work without written authorization from the student’s legal guardians. The school will immediately remove all material relating to a student from its website if requested by a legal guardian of the student and, in any event, once the student leaves the school permanently.

STUDENT MAN AGEMENT OF ONLINE PUBLISHING

The school will set the educational purpose for publishing student’s work online. A students image and schoolwork may be chosen for online publication if it meets the purpose and if the school holds the consent of the parent to publish the students material online. The material chosen must also meet the standards required for the website on which it is to be published.

For example if the students homework is to be published on the schools website , it must not defame anyone, be objectionable from a human rights point of view , be obscene , or infringe the copyright  of third parties ( for example ,the work must not contain substantial portions of another person’s  copyright material without permission.)

If the material is to be published on another website such as the online learning centre-Te Kete Ipurangi, then it must meet the publishing standards of that website.

Guideline 6

The school will not publish material online that may defame anyone, be objectionable from a human rights point of view, be obscene, or infringe the copyright of third parties. All of the student material published online will be subject to an editing process which will include the correction of spelling and grammatical errors.

PERMISSION SORT BY THE SCHOOL

The permission the school seeks is

Authorization to publish the student’s personal image or work online as required by the privacy act and

A Licence to publish any copyright work online.

Enquires

The school welcomes any enquiries from parents and students about the operation of this policy and has a designated privacy officer to discuss enquiries about student’s privacy.

GUIDELINE 7

The school has a designated privacy officer who is available to answer any enquiries from parents or students about the operation of the schools policy for the online publication of student work and images.

Disputes

The school has a procedure to resolve complains or other disputes.

Confirmed:

Review annually