Disclosure Policy
This policy is valid from 16 May 2011
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations.
The owner(s) of this blog will never receive paid compensation in any way from this blog.
The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified in individual blog posts, but I’ll do my best to identify companies/products here.
To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org
Districts/Schools that have employed me in one capacity or another. Any opinions expressed on this blog are my own and do not reflect on the opinions of my employers.
- Burlington Public Schools (MA)/Pine Glen School 2010-present
- Upper Darby School District (PA)/Beverly Hills Middle School and Drexel Hill Middle School 2002-2010
- Rose Tree Media School District (PA)/Springton Lake Middle School 2002
- Saint Joseph’s University 2001-2002
Additional groups that have compensated me with money for providing professional development:
Products I have received for free thanks in part to my blogging/tweeting:
Web Services:
Free Conference Attendance:
- Tech Forum Boston (Speaker)
- ASCD Summer Conference 2011 (Press)
iOS Promo Codes:
- DoInk (DK Pictures, Inc)
- eBookMagic (Evergreen Ruby, LLC)
- Explain Everything (Morris Cooke)
- Moe’s Notebook (Christopher Schardt)
- Middle School Confidential (Electric Eggplant)
In addition, the following organizations have sponsored an Edcamp that I helped organize:
Philly 2010:
- Chestnut Hill Academy
- Drexel University
- Project Foundry
- Sport Specialties
- Springside School
- Storybird
- Wikispaces
- TechSmith
Boston 2011:
- ABCya!
- Bella Printing and Signs
- EdTechTeacher
- Edutopia
- FableVision Learning
- Free Technology for Teachers
- GlogsterEDU
- Join.Me
- Lesley University
- MassCUE
- Microsoft New England Research and Development
- Project Foundry
- SimpleK12
- Starbucks
- SymbalooEDU
- TenMarks
- Tom Snyder Productions
October 5th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
[...] created a disclosure policy page after reading this post by Wes Fryer, who is clearly both more on top of these things than I am and [...]
August 20th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
I think the idea if a disclosure is great.