Discussion+Rules

Discussion Board Rules: The discussion board will serve as an assigment in the class. We will have weekly questions that relate to the material we are learning. Points will be earned for each discussion you participate in. This is mandatory. If you do not follow the rules below, you will be removed from the discussion and will receive a zero for the assignment. Breaking the rules a second time will warrent the suspension of your discussion board privledges and a write up. You will be graded according to the rubric that follows the rules.


 * **Courtesy.** I expect the discussion to be courteous even when disagreement may be vigorous. When writing your messages, please use the same courtesy that you would show when speaking face-to-face with someone. **Flames, insults, and personal attacks will not be tolerated.** It's fine to disagree with opinions, ideas, and facts, but always with respect for the other person.


 * General Behavior.** The discussion forum is expected to be a friendly and welcoming place, and one in which members can post without their motives, intelligence, or other personal characteristics being questioned by others. Members who post in a manner that makes other members unwelcome or uncomfortable, or who conduct themselves in a manner in any way detrimental, will lose posting privileges.


 * Copyrighted Material & E-mail Content.** Please do NOT post copyrighted material in our forum. Examples of copyrighted material include articles from publications or websites, book excerpts, or any other content which you have not created yourself. Fair use allows brief excerpts, e.g., a sentence or two, from copyrighted material for the purposes of review and commentary; please do not post massive excerpts from any source. Also, for legal reasons, please do not quote the text of e-mail communications; such material may be paraphrased if appropriate (and if not privileged or confidential) but should not be reproduced in the forum.


 * Links to Forums, Blogs, Social Network Pages, Photos, Videos, and Personal Sites.** Please do not post links to other discussion forums, blogs, personal sites, or other non-authoritative sources. This includes Facebook, Myspace, and similar sites. Links to non-authoritative sites like blogs, personal sites, etc., can't be researched for validity on an individual basis and hence are not allowed. All such links will be removed. Links to photos, videos,wallpapers, etc. cannot be verified as appropriate and should not be posted.

(i) post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, racial, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law; ( ii) post or transmit comments containing harassing or offensive language, using sexual references, sexual nicknames, racial slurs or rude or deliberately offensive comments or engage in disruptive activity online, including excessive use of scripts, sound waves, scrolling (repeating the same message over and over), or use viruses, worms or Trojan horses; (iii) impersonate any person or entity or falsely represent yourself (iv) copy another members work or submit another members work under your name
 * Rules & Disclaimers.** It is a condition of your use of Mrs. Haney's wiki discussion board that you do not:


 * Personal Information.** When using this message board forum, please be certain that anything you postdoes not compromise your personal safety. Do not provide your name, phone number, social security number or any other personally identifying information to people you do not know. Do not continue any conversation online that makes you feel uncomfortable. Please report any incidents of harassment or attempts to discover personal information to the moderators.


 * Moderation.** Mrs. Haney may edit, move, and delete posts at any time.


 * Language.** All posts will be in English only. Be descriptive, specific, and succinct in your postings. This way your opinion and point is clearly understood and referenced. Remember, people from all over the world read here with english as a second language. Please avoid excessive abbreviation and "text messaging" shorthand. Posts that do not meet the language guidelines will be deleted.

Above taken from [] and modified by Mrs. Haney on August 1, 2010. ||

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