

A NOTE ABOUT BLOGGING/WEBSITE PUBLISHING: “Web Authoring is necessarily a public activity. Once you put a page on the web, it is available to anyone on the Internet. At the same time, Federal FERPA guidelines dictate that as a student in a public University, you have the right to control access to personal information such as what courses you are enrolled in. In this class, I must see your work on the web to evaluate it properly. You do not, however, have to put any information on your websites that discloses your identity such as your name or your email address unless you choose to do so. The point of FERPA is that it is your information and you get to decide how it is used. If you have any concerns about disclosing personal information on the web, please discuss those concerns with me, and we will make whatever accommodations are needed.”[1]
[1] Information quoted (with minor modifications) from Jim Kalbach’s English 351 (Hypertext) Fall 2005 course at Illinois State U. Posted on TechRhet (techrhet@interversity.org) 8/15/2005.