Keeping Children Safe While Meeting Needs for 21st Century Learning

Web 2.0 on the Intranet

AUP Development Resources

Key Factors in Developing Policy for Web 2.0 Use

  • Purpose is educational, instructional, related to learning, curriculum based . . .
  • Purpose supports the beliefs of the school's mission, philosophy, goals, technology plan . . .
  • Communication of expectations and responsibilities to both parents and students is clear, administratively endorsed, and often in addition to the standard AUP.
  • Some are final, complete, and cover every known contingency while others try to be more open and variable to reflect the changing nature of technology and its application in K-12 education.
    • Legal implications vary for these types:
      • Specific language is more defendable in court;
      • Open ended language will cover situations and technologies we haven't yet applied.
  • Many Web 2.0 technologies require email to access them yet many schools do not provide or even allow student email.  

Varied Approaches

  • We don't know how to do the policy but it's too important to ignore so we hope we're covered by our AUP.
  • There will be no Web 2.0 in this school/district until we figure out how to write the policy.
  • As long as the parents know and sign off on it with a separate letter for each instance, it's okay.
  • How can we let the kids use Web 2.0 technologies when the providers can't guarantee their confidentiality, security, and backup of the data?
  • Web 2.0 is more about publishing so it's covered by our release form giving permission to publish student work.
  • How can we control the Web 2.0 content when we can't even control their iPods and phones?

Enterprise Level Options

School Options

  • Wikispaces - free spaces for teachers, ad free and completely private, email not necessary
  • pbwiki - free spaces for teachers, ad free, private, password controlled.
  • Blogmeister - school oriented blog available from David Warlick & The Landmark Project
  • Course Management Systems