The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act was created to protect students from having their personal information put out there for just anyone to know. As a teacher, we have a lot of rules and guidelines to follow, but this is an extremely important one to adhere to. I believe that all of our email communication that we use now is great, but we have to be extremely careful as to what we are saying in those emails. We do not have control over who is actually reading the emails that we are sending to, what we assume to be, the parent's email address. We never should send an email with any personal information, such as address, phone number, or grades. These are things that should be discussed over the phone or in a conference with other people present.
As far as copyright laws, you always have to make sure to give credit where credit is due. If you did not create something, then you cannot take credit for it. A good place to find free resources are with open sources. These have less restrictions than copyrighted sources. More and more open sources are being added everyday, especially for educational purposes.
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