The Public Lab site is a social research sharing website for non-professional and professional scientists alike. 

It's like an online lab notebook where students can:

* post their work
* get feedback from peers and other Public Lab members
* create a profile and recieve attribution for your contributions
* participate in open source collaboration

###Get started

To start using PublicLab.org, ask each of your students to [sign up](/signup) and create a profile. 

Watch a brief video about how to post a research note, and [read about research note posting here](/wiki/posting-research).

###Consider the privacy of minors

Some schools have internet access policies that can be compatible with publiclab.org with the following steps: 

You **may** want to ask students to:

* create usernames that do not identify students as belonging to a class or give out their home address
* not subscribe to mailing lists if you are under 13* (confirm this), instead, pass questions through teachers