AUP techNETSbit #1: “Acceptable Use - Access to the District's electronic networks must be (a) for the purpose of education or research, and be consistent with the educational objectives of the District, or (b) for a legitimate business use.”

techNETSbit Scenarios: 
1)  Hal is working on an educational project at his computer while his students are working quietly at their desks.  No one is really watching what he’s doing.  It’s Hal’s mother’s birthday today and he forgot to send her a card or gift.  He discovers a florist site that is not blocked by the district filter, so he orders some flowers for his mom.
2)  Val is working on an educational project and no one is really watching what she’s doing.  One of her students, Cal, has done an outstanding job on a group project and was helpful to others in his group as well.  Val notices that an e-card site isn’t blocked by the district filter, so she sends a "good work" e-card to Cal’s family email address.

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Hal
          Val 

AUP techNETSbit #2: “4.c. Do not reveal personal information, including the addresses or telephone numbers, of students or colleagues.” – or yourself! 

techNETSbit Scenarios:
1)  Pat is using a student safe search engine and finds himself at a site that asks him to choose whether he is under age 13, or 13 years old and above.  It looks like a site he could use for his school project.  He clicks the category for his age and chooses the Next button.
2)  Matt is using a student safe search engine and finds himself at a site that asks him to provide information such a name, address and email address.  Although he would really like to go to that Internet site, he uses his Back button and returns to his hit list. 

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Pat
          Matt 

AUP techNETSbit #3:
Internet Safety section states the district must provide for: “1. Limiting student access to inappropriate matter as well as restricting access to harmful materials; 2. Student safety and security when using electronic communications;”
Acceptable Use Policy section includes: “2. Staff members shall supervise students while students are using District Internet access to ensure that the students abide by the Terms and Conditions for Internet access contained in these procedures.”
Also: Before using the Internet with students, staff should preview sites and provide links to appropriate web addresses.  Students should use those links and not type in URLs.  When teaching Internet search skills, a student safe search engine should be used.  No Internet filter is 100% effective.

techNETSbit Scenarios:
1)  Mary wants to use the History and Tours section of the White House’s web site for her social studies class.  She’s pretty busy right now with all the demands on her time.  When her class gets to the computer lab, she tells them to get out their assignment and type in the address of the White House site to get the needed information.
2)  Barry is doing a unit on careers.  He’s pretty busy right now with all the demands on his time.  He uses a couple search engines to look for good career sites and decides to just let his students do the same.  When his class gets to the computer lab, he tells them to click on the student safe search engines to search on careers for their assignment.  Meanwhile, he notices a colleague he’s wanted to talk to is passing in the hallway.  He goes out to meet him; they have a lengthy discussion and make some needed decisions.
3)  Gary’s class is studying Illinois.  He’s pretty busy right now with all the demands on his time.  Gary uses a couple search engines to look for good Illinois web sites and quickly copies and pastes those addresses into Word, then he choose File, Save as Web Page and saves it into his Shared folder.  When his class is in the computer lab, he discovers his saved list of web sites doesn’t cover one crucial topic.  Gary tells his students to click on the Student Search Engines link on the computer’s home page and search on that topic. 

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Mary
          Barry
          Gary

AUP techNETSbit #4:
Unacceptable Use – “g. Invading the privacy of individuals, which includes the unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, and use of information about anyone that is of a personal nature; j. Posting anonymous messages;”
Acceptable Network Etiquette - “a. Be polite. Do not become abusive in messages to others; b. Use appropriate language. Do not swear, or use vulgarities or any other inappropriate language.” 

techNETSbit Scenario:
Trudy received an email from her colleague Judy.  Judy had forwarded a message to her from her building principal.  Trudy opened the email from Judy and read her not-so-polite complaints about the principal’s message, then Trudy opened the principal’s forwarded message to see what it said – and clicked the Reply button.  Trudy added her own not-so-polite comments and clicked Send. 

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Judy
          Trudy 

AUP techNETSbit #5:
Unacceptable Use – “f. Hacking or gaining unauthorized access to files, resources, or entities; h. Using another user's account or password;”
Network Etiquette - “e. Do not use the network in any way that would disrupt its use by other users.”

techNETSbit Scenarios:
1)  Zach is teaching a social studies class in the lab.  One of his students, Tom, can’t get his login to work.  Zach logs in as himself so Tom can work on the assignment.
2)  Jack needs his science homework questions to take home but cannot get his login to work.  Joe is in his science class.  Joe logs in and prints out the science homework questions for Jack.

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Zach
          Jack 

AUP techNETSbit #6:

Internet Publishing – “a. The absence of a copyright notice may not be interpreted as permission to copy the materials.  Only the copyright owner may provide the permission.  The manager of the Web site displaying the material may not be considered a source of permission.” “b. The ‘fair use’ rules governing student reports in classrooms are less stringent and permit limited use of graphics and text.” “c. Student work may only be published if there is written permission from both the parent/guardian and student.”
Unacceptable Use – “a. Using the network for any illegal activity, including violation of copyright or other contracts, or transmitting any material in violation of any U.S. or State law; b. Unauthorized downloading of software, regardless of whether it is copyrighted or de-virused; c. Downloading copyrighted material for other than personal use; i. Posting material authorized or created by another without his/her consent;”

techNETSbit Scenarios:
1)  Tom is a student.  For one of his assignments, he is doing research and then creating a PowerPoint that he will have to present to his class.  While researching on the Internet, he finds some excellent pictures that tie into his topic.  He copies and pastes them into his PowerPoint.
2)  Ron is Tom’s teacher.  He is very proud of some of the PowerPoints his class created and wishes to share them with parents.  He uploads them, including Tom’s, to his class web site.

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Tom
          Ron

AUP techNETSbit #7:

Unacceptable Use – “e. Wastefully using resources, such as file space;”

techNETSbit Scenarios:
1)  Dan is the unofficial “tech person” in his building.  Everyone, including administrators, comes to him with tech questions and requests.  Dan saves pictures of school activities in his home directory and often makes PowerPoint presentations full of pictures for parents to view at Open House and Meet Your Teacher night.  While working at his computer, Dan likes to listen to music.  It is really convenient to save his music files to the network.  Besides, he uses some of that music with his PowerPoint presentations.
2)  Stan is the unofficial “tech person” in his building.  Everyone, including administrators, comes to him with tech questions and requests.  He gets a lot of email which he files in folders in his email account.  When the tech team asks him to clean out his mailbox because it is so large, he archives most of his old email.

Are they in compliance with the district AUP?
          Dan
          Stan