Independent School Educators network
connect - discuss - collaborate
Public nature of this site: This is a public site, so
everything posted on this site is available to anyone on the
internet (with the exception of private groups), so do not post
personal, private, or controversial information. This site, like
all public sites is indexed by Google and your postings will be
accessible to a Google (or other search engine) search. Your
disclosure of information is not controlled by Site Administrators
nor Ning Platform & neither party is liable in any way for
anyone's misuse of the information in or as a result of your
disclosure. In other words, use judgment & caution here.
Private message system: Clicking 'Send Message' under a
member's photo on their page will let you send that peson a private
message. This messaging system does not reveal your email address
to the recipient. Members are able to opt out completely from
receiving email by clicking on the "My Settings" link.
Questionable content. Site Administrators may remove
inappropriate or questionable content without notice in order to
maintain community standards.
Employment seekers & job postings: The only permissible
place to post announcements of jobs
Wanted or Employment
Offerings are on those two pages. (Members may include
information about themselves on their profile page which includes
seeking employment.) Posting anywhere else, or using the private
message system to send unsolicited messages about seeking
employment will result in posting and/or account removal without
notice. If anyone receives unwanted private messages of this
nature, please forward them to the ISEnet administrators.
Copyright: Please do not post any copyrighted content on
this site unless it is your own, or you have the owner's
permission.
Unless
specified otherwise by the person posting content here, all posted
content on this site is released under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License for
re-use of anyone anywhere. Please note that this does not apply to
embedded content (e.g. embedded videos from YouTube) whose owners
retain copyright.
A friendly community. This is meant to be a community where
you don't have to deal with spam, explicit content, or defamatory
speech ~ if you find offensive or inappropriate content please
report the issue (see below.) We encourage positive and
constructive discussion and debate. If any Member (or non-Member)
feels that they have been subjected to inappropriate content or
behavior from this site, they should contact Site Administrators
immediately so that we can take appropriate action. We may remove
material posted on the site that we feel is not related to the
subject of the site. We also reserve the right to exclude members
who, in our view, have not followed the values set out here.
Report an Issue: There is a link on the "Help" tab to report
issues or bugs on the site. If a Member has any concerns about the
conduct of another Member, please contact us.
Events: Events which get posted should be of an educational
nature. The events board is intended for conferences, workshops,
etc. Site administrators reserve the right to remove any events.
Multiple postings of similar events are discouraged. Vendor (for
profit) events are not permitted to be posted.
No Spam. Site Administrators will never share your email
address with anyone without your permission (unless required by
law). With the exception of schools selling used equipment in the
Items
For Sale forum, we do not permit advertising by members, and we
do not allow membership from those who, in our view, are only here
to promote a product or a service. Members are expected to refrain
from spamming their fellow community members. Obvious spammers (or
posters of inappropriate content) will be deleted and banned from
the network without warning. Vendors of products or services are
permitted to create personal accounts on ISEnet and participate in
discussions, so long as they do not actively market or post links
to their products or services. The intent of this policy is to
allow us to benefit from everyone’s knowledge and participation
without being subjected to marketing or advertising in any form.
This includes the posting of comments on members’ profile pages, or
the sending of direct messages. Any member who does not comply with
this policy will be subject to immediate account removal. Teachers
who sell or benefit from the sale of products or services are also
subject to this policy. ISEnet administrators reserve the right to
terminate any member’s account at any time without warning, when in
our judgment, the member is violating our policies. Obvious spam
includes things like pushing a product or service for personal
gain, or using an account to just post links to other sites to
increase search engine rankings or traffic to that site. Sometimes
the content which is posted may not be immediately apparent as
spam, so here is how we make a determination (in roughly descending
order):
1. Appropriateness of content: Does it relate to education or the process of learning? Does it relate to school or schooling? Does it further the goals of building a pesonalized dynamic online community of teachers, students, & administrators? Please note that the discussion forums are for asking questions and starting discussions, not for announcing of events, products, or services.
2. Are you a known member of our community?: Those who include information that shows us who you are, and what you do, help us to understand your intentions.
3. Quantity of postings, or off-topic content: New members who start posting many off-topic items (e.g. comments, non-education-related) will be removed from the network, as the expected pattern is for new members to join this community and slowly start blogging or joining conversations around educational topics. New members are certainly encouraged to dive right in, but a note of caution is urged if the content which you are posting does not relate to education.
4. Language: Unfortunately at this time, our network managers are primarily English-speaking, so new members who post content in languages other than English should approach us before posting many items (see #3 above) that we may not be able to interpret.
4. Double-posting: Identical items posted in multiple places (e.g. as a blog entry and discussion board entry, and/or as an event entry) will be viewed as spam, and some or all of the duplicate items will be removed with or without notice.
5. Cross-posting: If items are posted on multiple nings they are more likely to be interpreted as spam. (We want to offer unique content!)
Getting banned from the site. Spammers or posters of
offensive content will banned without warning and all content from
said member is automatically deleted. When there is questionable
content we will attempt to contact the member. Failure to respond
to administrator requests will result in being banned from the
site.
Release of Liability & Indemnification of Site
Administrators: Use of Independent School Educators network
(the “Site”) is at the sole risk of Members and others who choose
to access this Site (collectively, “Users”). Under no
circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall the
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