Forum Guidelines
Who can use the forum?
Everyone can use the forum to introduce themselves, ask questions and share ideas. Most of the users are students but anyone who is interested in adventure and helping make the forum a great place to visit is more than welcome. Just remember that lots of the readers will be between 8-16 years old.
Expedition Class is a G-rated site. Rated-G means you should not use any words or phrases that would be inappropriate to say in school. You may not use bad language or post inappropriate pictures for kids. Remember, if your teacher wouldn't let you say it then neither would we. If you are uncertain as to whether something is allowed, contact us before adding it to this site. Because this site has children present, asking for or volunteering personal information is ABSOLUTELY not allowed. Personal Info means real life names, age, gender, location, email address exchanges, instant messenger ID's, password/account information, and other similar details. This also applies to posting personal pictures of the users, their schools, homes (that include their exact locations), etc. This applies to all forums, threads, posts, private messages, user pages, profiles, avatars and signatures. Expedition Class strives to keep the environment as safe as possible for our users. Moderators of the Expedition Class Forum will keep all objectionable messages off this forum by approving posts before they go online. This means there can be a short delay between when you post a message and when it appears. Sorry, but we'd rather be safe than sorry!
By signing up to the forum you agree to these rules, and agree to try your hardest to add positive, creative, thoughtful, helpful, instructive, questioning posts. However, Expedition Class reserves the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
Our main audience are students in primary and high schools and our main interest is in Tassie tigers, biodiversity and adventure. Please stick to the forum topics.
Students
If you are a member of a classroom who is following the journey you are welcome to register and post as an individual. However, it's essential to use a nickname or class code to identify yourself, rather than your full name. Your class can create a username and password so a shared class contribution can be posted as well.
Experts
This year we'll have help to answer tricky questions from some fantastic scientists and people with experience in South West Tasmania and Papua New Guinea. These experts will be dropping into the forum regularly so make the most of it by asking heaps of questions. So far we have the following experts ready to help;
Nick Mooney- Tasmanian animal expert.
Dr Clare Hawkins- Threatened Species Unit, Tasmania.
Qug- Grand daughter of Deny King, a pioneering tin miner from Melaleuca.
Assoc. Prof. Alistair Richardson- Evolutionary biology, freshwater 'yabby' expert.
Dr Niall Doran- Tassie threatened species, World Heritage Area management expert.