student privacy

In this 54-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Barbara Dolhansky and Timothy O'Rourke in a session entitled TUid: There is Safety in Numbers. They share how Temple University initiated the TUid project to eliminate the use of the Social Security number as the primary identifier to better protect the privacy of individuals.

In this 53-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Tracy Mitrano in a session entitled Youth, Technology and Privacy. Mitrano will share anecdotes and interviews from traditional-age college students to delve deeper into the issue of privacy in a digital age. She'll ask, "Are expectations of privacy different between students and administrators?" And, if so, what implications do these new definitions of privacy have for university regulations and public policy?

I appreciate the comments on my last post.

In terms of student privacy I already include in my syllabus a statement that the other students in the class will see student posts in the Bb discussion board and I suggest that if a student is uncomfortable with that circumstance that they should withdraw from the class (nobody ever has).

In terms of legalities, I wonder if an obvious answer is to simply use Wikipedia as the class site. I start an article and show the students how to add, edit, etc. Would the legal onus then fall on Wikipedia and not on me?