Chapter 3

Minding Your Online Manners at Any Age

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Seeing how etiquette varies for different audiences

Bullet Setting common rules for everyone

Bullet Teaching students to be professional

Bullet Reminding teachers to be mindful

Bullet Having kids learn the rules

You know when you meet someone face-to-face that the other person’s age tells you how you should communicate with them. If you’re talking with your peers at work, you speak with them differently than you would with friends when you’re on the town.

The height of the COVID-19 pandemic laser-focused attention on what it meant to mind your manners because there were far fewer people to talk with in person — and you didn’t want to stick around for too long, anyway.

Alas and alack, viruses change over time, and everyone is still trying to figure out how to paint that nasty SARS-CoV-2 virus into a corner. As much as we hope the virus is stuck in that corner by the time you read this book, online communication is still the order of the day for ...

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