New Classroom Rules

1. Come to school every day, unless you would rather just go on line.

2.  Come to class on time, or log into your online class anytime day or night, whenever it is most convenient to you.

3.  Leave your seat only when necessary, which should be often to go collaborate with others or demonstrate something to the class.

4. Bring required materials, including your laptop and cell phone every day.

5. Talk only when permitted, text at all other times.

6. Don't Talk to your neighbors, unless you are sharing your ideas, asking for help or giving help.

7. Use polite speech when speaking, blogging, texting, Twittering, instant messaging, etc.

8. Do not cheat, but remix, re-purpose, and sample other peoples’ work and ideas and give them credit.

9. Follow the teacher's directions immediately and your peers’ directions too.

10. Be polite, courteous, and respectful at all times in both physical and virtual space.

11. Complete all assignments neatly and on time and submit on line or post to your blog or wiki, and share it with your followers on Twitter.

12.  Keep your hands to yourself, but share all your ideas and knowledge with others in your Personal Learning Network.

13. Be quiet in lines, hallways, and restrooms, unless you are at home and logged into your on line classroom, in which case you can dance and play music.

14. If you need help raise your hand, but don’t wait for the teacher get help from your neighbors and post your question to your online Personal Learning Network.

15. Know what you are supposed to be learning, why, and what you will do with the knowledge.

Comments

[Willem]

Great rules!
Think I will translate that to dutch and post to my blog.
Of course I will refer to you.
Thanks for sharing!

[John Strange]

Great!

[Rob Letcher]

Too true! As we bring new teachers into the world of online teaching, it's important to remind them that the rules DO change - and should!

[Linda Eller]

This is Great! Love it.

[mrsdurff]

I love #5 - an especially challenging rule for middle schoolers even after your lead learner sets you up with chat rooms and Edmodo...Thanks for a great list of classroom rules relevant to today!

[Brendan]

Rule 14 was always ask three then me in my classroom

[Stylianos Mystakidis]

Provoking, valid, realistic, ambitious guidelines for classroom 2.0. Loved them! We sure need technomaestro-teachers for this to happen.

I translated the rules into Greek and published in my blog:
http://blog.edu.gr/archives/546

There, I added a 16th rule to introduce the dimension of the global collaborative classroom:

16. Participate actively in group projects, in collaboration with peers from all over the world.

Thank you for the inspiration!

[Anica Petkoska]

I made a poster at glogster. I'll probably translate them in Macedonian and post them on wikispaces and my blog.Thanks for the inspiration!!!!!

[SMiGL]

Good rule :) Thanks!

[koonkroo]

Great for all students !

[Trevor]

I think you should add "in your underwear" if you are at home dancing around... That is what I did when taking master's courses online =)

[Polatlı]

Good post. I like to read your posts. well written. thank you.

[Steven Miguel]

Great class rules, love the cheats part. remix and re-purpose is exactly the answer! Online classes are the way to go ;)