Does the educational system that you are affiliated with offer a shared storage area on the network for students or faculty?------Do you find this beneficial? Since I do not work in a school building with a network we do not have a shared storage area. Each faculty issued computer does have a live storage back up so that if something happened to our computer they can overnight us a new one with everything loaded.
Before reading charper 4 in Frazier and Bailey, were you familiar with Acceptable Use Policies, (AUP's)?--------Have you ever signed or collected one? Does your educational system enforce AUP's?
The faculty must sign an AUP at the beginning of each school year. Our students and parents also sign one. The Confirmation of Agreement is located in the back of the Parent/Student Handbook. I do not collect these forms. They must sign it and mail it to our main office in Norristown. We have had issues in the past when students violated the rules and then some of their privileges were taken away.
What type of Email System does your educational system implement? Do you use this mail system at school?.......from home? explain..... The school uses email powered by Google which is very efficient because everything is in one place. We can access our email, calendar and documents from any computer. All of our email addresses are @pavcs.us. Our parents and students use an Internet server that the school monitors and they access their email through Blackboard Academic Suite. All of their email addresses are @mypavcs.org.
Overall, from this chapter, the most important thing that I learned is....Acceptable Usage Policies must be put into place and the students and faculty must be monitored. Everyone always thinks that the students will get into trouble on the Internet however, it seems that more and more school districts are having problems with their faculty. This year was the first year that I had to sign an AUP as a teacher. My school will no longer let us use our school email account for personal emails. We also shouldn’t be viewing certain websites from our computers and we should only be ‘surfing the web’ on our lunch or after school hours. The more people learn about the internet and computers the harder it will be for a technology coordinator.
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I agree that many school districts are experiencing problems with faculty computer usage. It seems as though many teachers are using the computer at school for personal reasons such as completing graduate work, online shopping, and accessing sports highlights or scores. Even though the computers are monitored at all times, some teachers feel as though they can get away with whatever they want assuming that the technology department will not have the time to monitor their computer usage. I think that when you are at work, you should be doing your work and not handling personal issues.
If parents and students all have school emails have you had any issues with inproper emails being sent to teachers by students or parents? At this point our District assigns emails to employees only not students. We are anxious about security, privacy, invasive actions appearing on our network.
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