🔸 Members learn from each other's knowledge and experience through participating in collaborative discussions and inquiries.
🔸 Members get experience sharing feedback and discussing photos to increase visual literacy. 
🔸 Members practice curating and presenting their own work for feedback.
🔸 Members gain support to encourage and inspire their explorations with photography.

Welcome to our Group! We want everyone to feel comfortable, connected, and safe. Outschool has 3 key guidelines for all group communities: be kind, be safe, and be respectful.

🔹 Be Kind - Help all learners feel welcome and included.
Learners from all over the world, with different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, abilities, gender identities, religions and body types, participate in our Group. Always be nice and make others, especially new learners, know that they belong and are welcome. 
    
🔹 Be Safe - Keep your personal information private and never ask other learners for theirs.
Personal things are personal. We want to keep you safe on Outschool, but we also want YOU to understand how to be safe when you're meeting other learners or teachers. Keep your full name, home address, gaming or social media name, email, and school/location names private.
    
🔹 Be Respectful - Treat others how you want to be treated.
Keep language clean and information you share safe. If you wouldn't say it or share with your grandma, don't do it here. Swear words, racy videos, and violent images are not allowed. Treat Outschool like a public place, and when in doubt, keep things covered.


In addition, please ensure the following when participating in Photography Club specifically:
🔹 When sharing portraits of people, especially kids, make sure you have the “ok” to share them online. Street or documentary photography done in a public place where street photography is allowed are ok to share.

🔹 Group members come from a variety of backgrounds, and we need to ensure everyone is able to engage with the content shared here in a comfortable way! Especially when sharing information about artists, exhibits, etc. do not share any work in Photography Club that contains artistic nudity or other mature themes. When sharing links, especially those related to art, please avoid sharing content that contains those themes — but when viewing the links of others, please be aware that the site may have links to other exhibits, etc. that are not part of the original content shared. If in doubt, just message the docent! 

🔹 If sharing links to other places online that you share content (eg. a portfolio), ensure you have the permission of your parent/guardian to provide that external content location with the group community.