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As mentioned earlier, a successful AUP requires support from the whole school community. This support begins during the drafting of the policy Too often, the AUP reflects the concerns of the administration and technology support folks. The result is policy that adds roadblocks for teachers and stifles creativity and collaboration. When the policy reflects the results of a school-wide discussion on "acceptable use", its potential for successful adoption increases.
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AUPs should be developed for adaptability. This can be difficult, considering that AUPs should be approved by the Board of Education or other body of governance. However, elements or layers of the document could be provisioned for for change, with approval going to an official of the school district. These would have to be issues with no legal implications, and may include, a list of recommended and prohibited practices, support materials, and others.
Conditions of use may be a useful section to add in, who can use the infrastructure, that only information to or from the network can be transmitted, practices that may jeopardize the operation of the infrastructure will be prohibited.1
This sort of policy ignores and blocks opportunities to introduce not only issues of appropriate use of ICT but also social behavior -- respect for each other.
"The school server should maintain an "Internet log" or history of all sites visited by users. Furthermore, this log should be reviewed daily, to determine if unacceptable activity has taken place and where. If users are aware from the beginning..."
"As stated before, the enforcement of an AUP really requires strong support from everyone in the educational community: administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and of course, students. If an AUP exists only as a document and not an inviolable entity within the culture of the school, transgressions will occur. "
"The school server should maintain an "Internet log" or history of all sites visited by users. Furthermore, this log should be reviewed daily, to determine if unacceptable activity has taken place and where. If users are aware from the beginning...
As stated before, the enforcement of an AUP really requires strong support from everyone in the educational community: administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and of course, students. If an AUP exists only as a document and not an inviolable entity within the culture of the school, transgressions will occur. "
Find some way to make the AUP a working document, something that is essential to every-day practice in the school. It needs to have value to be valuable.
The school server should maintain an "Internet log" or history of all sites visited by users. Furthermore, this log should be reviewed daily, to determine if unacceptable activity has taken place and where. If users are aware from the beginning...
"The school server should maintain an "Internet log" or history of all sites visited by users. Furthermore, this log should be reviewed daily, to determine if unacceptable activity has taken place and where. If users are aware from the beginning..."
"As stated before, the enforcement of an AUP really requires strong support from everyone in the educational community: administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and of course, students. If an AUP exists only as a document and not an inviolable entity within the culture of the school, transgressions will occur. "
The school server should maintain an "Internet log" or history of all sites visited by users. Furthermore, this log should be reviewed daily, to determine if unacceptable activity has taken place and where. If users are aware from the beginning... 7
1 "K-20 Network Conditions of Use and Acceptable Use Policies." Technology Planning. 23 Mar 2000. Washington State Department of Information Services. 8 May 2008 <http://www.dis.wa.gov/enterprise/k20network/aup.aspx>. ⇑
2 Cell Phone Use & Policies in Schools." {+Technology Planning. Saginaw Independent School District. 8 May 2008 <http://www.sisd.cc/education/...>. ⇑
3 Cell Phone Use & Policies in Schools." Technology Planning. Saginaw Independent School District. 8 May 2008 <http://www.sisd.cc/education/...>. ⇑
4 Cell Phone Use & Policies in Schools." Technology Planning. Saginaw Independent School District. 8 May 2008 <http://www.sisd.cc/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=1513&sc_id=11952570...>. ⇑
5 Cell Phone Use & Policies in Schools." {+Technology Planning. Saginaw Independent School District. 8 May 2008 <http://www.sisd.cc/education/...>. ⇑
6 Cell Phone Use & Policies in Schools." Technology Planning. Saginaw Independent School District. 8 May 2008 <http://www.sisd.cc/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=1513&sc_id=11952570...>. ⇑
7 Fitzer, Kim & Jim Peterson. "Enforcing Acceptable Use Policies." Crime 2002. 29 Jul 2002. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 8 May 2008 <http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/crime-2002/aup.htm>. ⇑
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