Project for Week 2- Acceptable Use
Policy
Your job this week is to construct an Acceptable Use Policy. It may
be for your work, your family, or for your classroom.
The way that you do is - is to get input from the users.
You may guide or coach them, but it should be their
acceptable use policy. So someone might have an acceptable users policy
the grandchildren! It should reflect their ages. Therefore, it may be
very informal.
Please see if you can get some positive statements
in the policy, so they don't sound so militaristic. Remember, if this
is for 2nd graders, it should be in language that second grades use
and understand.
Here are some examples to help you get started.
On Webboard, I posted 5 examples from previous terms. Check out
- Ben's policy for toddlers
- Cathi's family policy
- Mrs. Brody's 5 grade policy or Angie's policy for her 7 year old
and 4 year old. You can just hear her, when she says at the end "Just
because there's a button, doesn't mean it needs to be pushed!"
- Tristen's family policy that talks about eBay!
Remember you are not writing a district policy,
but an informal one developed with the users themselves. Post your Acceptable
Use Policy in the conference labeled as such.
Remember to tell us who the audience is.
Is this for kindergarten, fifth graders, workgroup, family, police force,
parents? The language and criteria will change for each group.
The best acceptable use policies are those written with the students
themselves. In other words, you get the students to create the policy
for their own computer use in the classroom or lab. Last
year's rule number one from the first graders was "Don't pound
on the computer!"
One of the students didn't have access to the classroom, so she created
a computer and technology use policy with her children for the technology
use at home. She included how to answer the phone, when the
parents aren't there. You do not have to do this, unless it fits into
your plan, but I thought that this was an interesting concept of a family
acceptable use technology plan.
By creating the policy with the users, you get them to buy into the
uses. Sometimes students make harder rules than the teachers! So whatever
level you decide to work with, the language must be appropriate.
Simple tutorial that ends with an Acceptable
Use Permission Slip, available in English and Spanish.
http://k-12.pisd.edu/guide/elemen/inter1.htm
Assignment:
* Create an Acceptable Use Policy for your class, famiily, children
or parents
* Find out if your school or organization has an acceptable use policy.
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