[Year 12 IPM] off-topic request: laptop usage policy

[Bell, Cameron P]

We make no distinction between the appropriate use of ICT infrastructure
or any other school facility. Students have a code of conduct that
applies to the way they behave at school and that applies to ICT/laptops
as well.
Our "acceptable use policy" simply reiterates that their use of
notebooks etc falls within
a) the guidelines of the Student Code of Conduct (bullying and respect
for school equipment etc etc)
b) the law, as it applies to copyright or harassment
As far as I am concerned, my job is to help keep the network running and
monitor its use so that other users are not affected by what others may
be doing, and that we are not storing illegal material, but I do not
police its use. It is the classroom teacher's job and the Year Level
Coordinators role to police its usage. We have a graded series of
sanctions:
Warning - conference with detention - parent involvement - suspension -
disable account as a last resort.
Students acknowledge this once at the start of the year with a little
brochure signed by them and their parent. No signature means no
school-email and a reduced disk storage quota.
Trying to map a list of "Don't do this..." was seen as pointless as we
couldn't predict what students would attempt to do. We essentially said
"Be nice" and that's what the code of conduct is all about.

Cameron


-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Neil Carmona-Vickery
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:38 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] off-topic request: laptop usage policy

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for this off-topic request.

I'm helping put together a 1:1 Laptop Learning Programme for Year 9  
students here at Ringwood SC.
At present we have a Network Usage Policy that covers such things as
obscene material and cyberbullying. Unfortunately much of the guts of  
the policy is buried in policy speak
and doesn't translate well to student language.

My question is, what other approaches have other schools used to a)  
prevent the circulation of obscene material
on student laptops and b) clearly outline the consequences for going  
against school policy ?

Thanks in advance,

Neil


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