-> How are your schools dealing with access issues?  We are just
-> developing our policy.
Our school is going very slowly. We do (I believe) have Internet access
this year in the library. I know that the librarians have had some
difficulty in finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) who was
consistent (without lots of downtime, etc...). I'm not sure why that is.
I don't have time to even do my own job, let alone inquire about their
problems...
If I understand correctly, this year Internet access is for faculty only
(I have not availed myself of it, since I have access at home), with
next year being opened up to students. I believe that along with the
registration packets this summer, the admin will include an Internet
policy sheet to be signed by parents so that their student will be
allowed to use the service offered in the library. I could ask the
librarian about it, and see if they have any policy sheet yet?
Other than that, we are putting in a "multi-media lab", as the admin
likes to call it, next year. I do not believe we will have Internet
access in the lab, although the machines will be networked, and so a
sort of "Intranet" could be run, where teachers have obtained a small
Web-like *.html file that concerns a particular topic that they wish to
present. This would be self-contained, and you wouldn't have to worry
about kids venturing out on the Internet and getting into no-no's. I
believe there are quite a number of these "Intra-net" type *.html files
available already prepared on CD-ROM for purchase, although it's not
hard to prepare your own by doing your own Web browsing and saving the
files off to disk. (I haven't learned how to do this yet, though.) By
making these files available off of the server, all the students on the
network should be able to access them.
I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for? When I go out in the
newsgroups and read my mailing list again, I'll try to keep you in mind
if I see any mention of "Acceptable Use Policies" and save some of that
info here.
My e-mail adress is: cking@cyberg8t.com.
If you send me yours, it would be easier for me to forward any such info
I have, rather than saving it off to a text file and either posting it
here or sending it via FidoNet.
Sheila King
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