GEN: Publishing Student Work on the Internet

[Martha Hawkins <hawkinsm@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us>]

We are revising our school's web page.  I would like and the students
would like to see more of their work and pictures on the page.  The
students would really like a yearbook type product and the
administration is leaning more toward a handbook type product.  I see
something that incorporates both view points.  However, as I start to
think about posting students photos and work, I wonder about the need of
securing some sort of release or parent permission for publishing
either.  When we were accumulating local oral history material, we had a
release form that all contributors had to sign.

I have a few questions that I would like to pose to the list:

1) Is such a release form necessary? Advisable?
2) Does anyone have such a requirement in their school?
3) If so, would you send to me a copy of the form?

Martha Hawkins
Martha M. Hawkins, Librarian            email:  hawkinsm@cdc.net
Soddy-Daisy High School
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
http://www.gsh.org/schools/usa/tn/shs5332/

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