Tag: STUDENT

School officials in Lee County, Florida have issued a new set of guidelines for the upcoming academic year. This go-round, they're cracking down on Facebook. As the AFP reports, the newly published protocol explicitly warns district teachers against interacting with their students via social networking sites, in order to avoid the kinds of legal or professional pitfalls that have plagued so ...

Share Getting attention in class sometimes involves adding an enthusiastic wiggle to a raised hand, or cooing an ever so soft "ooh, ooh, me!" But, if you're after a sure-fire solution to grabbing your teacher's eye, blowing up your iPod is always an option. Such was the case, it seems, for one Massachusetts high school student, whose iPod recently exploded "spontaneously" on her desk in the ...

You might think that teachers and students on MySpace would be like oil and water -- two things that aren't too likely to mix. It's odd to think that a student would really want to 'friend' their teacher, but there is a big enough fear of such an overture taking place in Southern Mississippi that a school district there has gone ahead and banned all friending or texting between students and ...

The student at Toronto's Ryerson University who -- when we last checked -- was facing expulsion for creating an online collaborative study group on Facebook, has now been cleared of academic misconduct -- although he still received a penalty to his course grade. Chris Avenir, the 18-year-old student who created the Facebook group, claimed the activity on the online study group was the same as ...

Using a Facebook group is not the same as face to face collaboration on schoolwork, according to administrators at Toronto's Ryerson University. Case in point: a freshman student faces expulsion for setting up an online study group via Facebook last semester. The professor for the class claims this lead to cheating and not just normal study group help. The student, Chris Avenir, says the online ...