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Permission Letter
Dear Parents, We will soon be starting a wiki project in our deaf culture class. A wiki is an internet website that allows students to collaborate and provide written information that can be changed, added to, or deleted. You may have heard of, or used, a website called Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia where information can be changed by users. A wiki is very similar in that you can create pages of information that can be edited. Teachers have started to use wikis in the classroom to increase student's reading and writing skills. It also gives students the opportunity to work together and learn from each other. We will be using these skills to collaborate and create a research-based wiki. You can learn more about wikis at [].  Our class will be researching famous historic deaf and hearing people using online resources. The students will each be given a name of a distinguished person. The students will add their information to the wiki to produce a collection of significant individuals and their impact in deaf culture and society. This information will be stored and used as a resource in our database.
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**Online Safety and Responsibility** Your student's name and personal information will not be shared during this project. We will spend some time discussing internet safety prior to the start of the project. Online responsibility will be stressed continually throughout the assignment as your child uses online resources to find information. The wiki site we will be using is protected, and your child will be provided with a password. Although anyone can view wiki pages, only members of this space can edit the information.

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**Permission ** This project information has been discussed with your child. Please review the project terms and conditions, and discuss them with your child. Please sign and return to Mrs. Leask

=__Project Terms and Conditions__ =

 1. Students using internet resources are expected to act safely by not sharing personal information.

2. Students using wikis agree not to share their user name and password with anyone besides their teachers and parents, and never log in as anyone except themselves.

3. Students using wikis are expected to treat wiki spaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for the wiki.

4. Student wikis are to be a place for student expression. However, they are first and foremost a tool for learning, and as such will sometimes be constrained by the various requirements and rules of classroom teachers.

5. Students wikis are to be a vehicle for sharing student writing with real audiences.

6. Students using wikis take good care of the computers by not downloading or installing any software without permission, and not clicking on ads or competitions.

7. Students who do not abide by these terms and conditions may lose their opportunity to take part in this project.

//I have read and understood these project terms and conditions. I agree to uphold them.

__Student's signature: date:__

__Parent's signature: date:__//

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