Debra Tryggestad's List: Acceptable Use Policy

• Blogging/Podcasting Terms and Conditions:

  ·          Students using blogs, podcasts or other web tools  are expected to act safely by keeping ALL personal information out of their posts.

  ·          Students using such tools agree to not share their user name or password with anyone besides their teachers and parents and treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is also inappropriate for a blog.

  ·          Students who do not abide by these terms and conditions may lose their opportunity to take part in the project and/or be subject to consequences appropriate to misuse.

• • check the code of ethics on this wiki
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• Number 1: A blog is a Web-publishing concept that enables anyone -- first graders, political pundits, homeless people, high school principals, presidential candidates -- to publish information on the Internet.
   
   Number 2: Blogs (a shortening of weB LOG), or blogging has become a journalistic tool, a way to publish news, ideas, rants, announcements, and ponderings very quickly, and without technical, editorial, and time constraints. It essentially makes anyone a columnist. In fact, many established columnists now publish their own blogs.
   
   Number 3: Blogs, because of their ease of use, and because of the context of news and editorial column writing, have become a highly effective way to help students to become better writers. Research has long shown that students write more, write in greater detail, and take greater care with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, when they are writing to an authentic audience over the Internet.

• Educational Use
• Supervision and Monitoring
• Meaningful Consequences
• Accidental Access to Porn
• Inappropriate Blocking
• Internet Safety and Responsible Use Education

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• Has Your School District Updated Its Acceptable Use Policy?
    With the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools, rapidly emerging technologies and portable electronic devices, your AUP may need frequent updating. In this section of the CTAP Cybersafety web site, you'll find helpful resources for all areas of consideration.

• But unless the schools are equal to the task of absorbing the new digital media, and making acute use of their potentials while guarding against their abuses, schools are likely to become as anachronistic as almshouses, teachers as anachronistic as barber-surgeons. Any culture that wishes to survive will ensure that learning takes place, but the forms and formats remain wide open.

• • Kids love blogging.  
  • Students who lack the reading and writing skills they need to succeed also   may lack the motivation to practice those skills. Many are motivated,   however, to chat virtually with their friends.  
  • Seeing their words published on the Web is a great student motivator.  
  • Blogs offer an innovative way for students to engage in reflective writing   on classroom topics in a familiar medium.  
  • Blogs represent a democratization of information dissemination, providing   each individual with the opportunity to publicly present his or her thoughts   and opinions.  
  • Students who know they have an audience other than their teacher write more   credibly, accurately, and carefully.  
  • Blogs allow others to respond, providing feedback to the authors.  
• • reflect on their reading or classroom discussions.  
  • investigate topics online and then report on their research.  
  • record group progress on a project.  
  • talk about shared classroom experiences.  
  • copy and paste thought-provoking quotes from other blogs, and then offer   their own thoughts on the topic.  
  • ask professional writers to edit their blogs, or provide feedback.  
     

• We must shift from the Web 1.0 Internet safety approach —fear–mongering, simplistic rules and filtering— to a Web 2.0 approach. We should protect younger children. But we need to empower tweens and teens to make safe and responsible choices by providing them with accurate information about the risks and effective protective strategies.

• Inappropriate Blocking

• There is a big difference between knowing what a blog is and blogging with a purpose.

• Purpose and Rules

   

   South Titan Government Blog is a site intended to enhance political discussion between students.
  
  The rules of this site are very clear:
  1. If you are a student you must use an alias name, but I must know who it is.
  2. You must refrain from any profanity
  3. As this is an extension of Papillion-La Vista South, school rules apply when making any references on this site.
  4. Make sure you are communicating clearly and intelligently (No text message wording please).
  5. If the above criteria are not met, your posts may not be published.
  6. The views on this blog are not necessarily those of Mr. Keller or Papillion-La Vista South High School.

• Educators must acknowledge that new technologies that have emerged during the past few years will be a part of our students’ future. Ignoring or blocking these applications from our schools and classrooms is to relinquish our responsibilities as educators.