As part of the second course of our COETAIL program, our challenge was to review our school's Acceptable Use Policy for technology and make any improvement that we deemed necessary. As we have a fairly large contingent of NIST staff participating in the course, we had to balance the "many hands make light work" with the "too many cooks in the kitchen" to come up with what turned out to be an interesting project and definite improvement on the existing policy.
With our current document being a combination of a waiver form and an acceptable use policy with straightforward bullet points like, "don’t do bad things to/with your data/account or school computer," there was room for improvement. Ultimately, to address the needs of our 1:1 program, we decided to separate the damage waiver and created more positive statements under the categories of "general use;" "use in class;" "online behaviour;" and "health." Below you will find a copy of the document we propose to be implemented next school year which students will need to sign at the beginning of the school year.
In our brainstorming for this policy, our group of NIST educators came up with the idea of making things more visual and Adrian Watts and Jago Gazendam really ran with the idea, scouring the net for fantastic Creative Commons images to support the plain text AUP. The idea is that these can be printed and displayed around the school or can be viewed as a presentation (as seen below) to promote discussion with the students (and, quite possibly, staff).
The other day, while I was at work, my cousin stole my apple ipad and tested to see if it can survive a twenty five foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My iPad is now destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is entirely off topic but I had to share it with someone!
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