Ideas

Ideas? Recommendations?

Does our AUP..  Filters are fine but we need to teach students to properly evaluate websites for themselves. Let them decided to use or not use a website. Hee is the website evaluation tool I use with students.
 * focus on punishment or opportunity?
 * communicate a vision of students as would-be hackers and criminals, or your vision of students as active participants in the 21st century?
 * explain why computers are essential tools in every classroom?
 * account for all of the changes that are to come in the technological world?

Here is the PowerPoint I use with students on the day I send home the current AUP to be signed by parents and students. I try to put it in school and library specific terms. It may not be for everybody but I put it together when my students asked me why they had to sign it.

Model Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/acceptableUsePolicy.htm