Thursday, November 4, 2010

accessing internet from school computers

I'm in a school law 201 workshop

Accessing inappropriate content from school computers...searching urls versus actually going to pages
"insufficiently thorough" online site
"take it slow in these cases...access to storage of online material...preserve or access information online...when in doubt, spend the money for an outside expert"
how much conduct unbecoming is online postings of a teacher on Facebook (mocking students)?
someone other than building level principals should look for things (postings that are taken down, for example)
delaying needed actions by toggling on the keyboards; "it lightened the workload"...more straightforward
tracking someone accessing someone's home email?
acceptable use policy on school computers (school computers used for school purposes)
union use of school computers and the school tech being able to access records of emails sent to members (a law case waiting to happen)
use of school materials and equipment is prohibited for political uses (including budget overrides)
any law on using personal equipment, but it coming into the school?
not in Massachusetts, but nationally, yes
(the MASC legal counsel just referred to Facebook as "a contraption")
"you never use a computer to give advice or directions that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the paper"
"a lot of people think it's privileged communication--it isn't privileged, it isn't gone when you delete it, and it's subject to public records"
"there are alot of issues that have become problematic"

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