Homepage Policies

School Homepage Guidelines

• Be curriculum based
• Expand existing Acceptable User Policy to include guidelines
• Responsibility for management & editorial content
  1. Includes Principal ---Adm.---Teacher---Parents---Students
  2. Each site should have a Webmaster - Person who receives comments on homepages.
  3. Principal has ultimate responsibility
     • Must be aware of homepage
     • Should have awareness of all ramifications of public access to school homepage
     • Should be in communication concerning material on homepage
• Schools without servers be given space on a central servers
  1. School district has ordered servers that will allow non CKP schools to construct homepages
     • Issue of who will authorize home pages
     • Issue of who will support the activity

Staff Homepages

• Curriculum focused and educationally oriented
  1. Using a school server, all information should reflect an educational focus
• Appropriate content
  1. Ethics Policy should reflect School District's Ethics Policy
  2. Appropriate to the classroom
  3. Must follow existing School District guidelines
  4. Cannot conflict with School Board Policy
• Links to other WWW pages
  1. Should there be allowed a link to private commercial home pages?
  2. Decision to consult district solicitor on School District policy/legal ramifications
  3. Disclaimer on direct links should be included
  4. Disclaimer on indirect links should be included

Student Homepage Guidelines

• Decision to contact district solicitor in regard to legal ramifications.
• Activities indicating need for creation of homepages
  1. Construction and writing as an educational task
  2. Student Portfolio
     • Could include personal information as necessary
• Process of creating homepages
  1. Addressed in Student Acceptable Use Policy
     • Need for student and parent approval at various intervals (elementary, middle, secondary levels)
  2. Parents be aware of personal information on homepages
     • Check off of various levels of personal information allowed on homepages.
  3. What is appropriate?
  4. Someone to be responsible for monitoring of use does contain personal information
  5. Treat as student newspaper would be treated
  6. Content must be approved by editorial group
  7. Student must create homepage and have parent permission before it is put on-line
  8. Changes on the homepage must be handled so information remains within guidelines
  9. Use existing School District Policy regarding publishing of student pictures, etc.
  10. Check off of various levels of personal information allowed on homepages.
  11. Provide various levels of access to student homepages
      • Some information not publicly accessible...only accessible to certain groups.
  12. What is considered appropriate writing
  13. What is commercially acceptable? (solicitation for summer employment, selling books, displaying of job skills)
• Summary of Student Homepages
  1. Parents should be informed of Internet, both positives and negatives
  2. Parents should be informed of and sign off on student homepages.
  3. More information should be provided to parents than presently provided.

Parental Information....Internet

• Dissemination of information (sites, schools, district, project)
• Orientation of Internet and its usage on PCTV
• Send home flyer
• Meetings at the schools
• Issue books on the Internet
• Point to Http://www.safesurf.com