#18 Acceptable Use

Our County recently updated its Acceptable Use Policy. It took me a little while to find it on our webpage. It wasn't in an obvious place. The updated AUP was revised 6/12/12

 I know that our county technology person sends the AUP's out already with the students' names printed on it. Then when they are returned they are put on file at the board office. The homeroom teacher also keeps a copy on file in his/her room. If we have a student without one we send another one and sometimes call the parent to make sure it gets signed. We haven't had anyone not sign it eventually. The students want to use the computers.

 Web 2.0 isn't specifically addressed except that personal social media may not be accessed during the school day.

 Here is the link to our Policy.

http://www.edline.net/ExtLink.page 

Here is the permission slip that is sent home with the students.

 http://www.edline.net/files/_eMATg_/f53a0e107985c5c63745a49013852ec4/Student_AUP.pdf

#18 Acceptable Use

Today's mission on my TIS journey is to check out our countie's Acceptable Use Policy and blog about it. Here are some links from the county policy manual that discuss technology http://www.edline.net/ExtLink.page http://www.edline.net/ExtLink.page Basically many teachers are not aware of what the policy they sign says. Especially if you are using a school computer, you have very little privacy on the machine. Expect any email you write or things you do can be monitored. We have an Acceptable Use Policy that the students sign every year. We keep a copy at the school level and the original goes to the board office. They say they will keep them from year to year but we always get new ones every year. If someone doesn't have one on file, we keep sending them home until we get a signature. We have called home before too to make sure it gets signed. They don't address web 2.0 very much so I figure there will be more on this in an updated policy. Teachers should read this stuff more closely.