Digital Photos

I love the idea of taking photos of your students to be used in a newsletter sent home to parents, or for a class digital year book to be handed out at the end of the year. But however I think that the photos that are taken of our students have to be used carefully and wisely. Parents at the beginning of the year are asked to sign a permission slip regarding the use of photos of their child for different things in the school, but this does not pertain to the use of images of their children on photo sharing websites. As a teacher you do not want to be the one responsible for endangering the well being of a child because you put a photo on a website of them, not intending any harm, and the wrong person got a hold of that picture and too much information about that child. So when using pictures of your students, and having them on your computer, just be very conscious on how that photo is being used. Just something to think about.