Community Code

ISTE Membership Community Code

The purpose of the ISTE Member Ning is to foster learning, networking, and educational exploration among ISTE's membership base and the wider educator community. We reserve the right to remove any content or to ban a participant who does not follow the spirit of our community code.  

These are our fundamental rules for anyone participating in the Ning:

- Respect: Please treat all other community members with respect. Avoid any personal attacks, slurs, profanity, vulgarity or abuse in your comments. It is expected that group members will be respectful of differing opinions and backgrounds. Healthy disagreement is encouraged. However, anyone making insulting, harassing, or personally disrespectful comments will be asked to desist, and if necessary, will be banned from the network.

- Commercial Content: The purpose of the ISTE Ning is for the exchange of information among members. Culturally, hard selling is discouraged by the group. Commercial content is encouraged only when it contributes a resource to a discussion or group.

- Appropriate Content: Please use good common sense when posting content and participating in discussions. This includes, but is not limited to, the following guidelines:

• Do not submit content that may express pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism or violence.
• Do not submit anything that you should keep confidential under any law. For example, do not submit information subject to a non-disclosure agreement, any inside information, or any proprietary or confidential information that you may have learned from an employer or any other person.
• Do not submit or upload any material that could harm or disrupt another user’s computer system, including software viruses, spyware, or other similar programs, or would allow others to inappropriately access software or websites.
• Limit your submissions to content relevant to the subject at hand.
• Do not submit links to any external site that may violate these rules.
  

Thank you for following this Community Code. ISTE reserves the right to amend or change it at any time.