Developing an Expected Use Policy for the educational use of online space in Portmarnock Community School: From practice to policy… Donal O’

How many of you teach in this school? Students may use personally-owned devices (e.g. laptops, tablets-computers, digital-cameras, and smart-phones) for educational purposes, if allowed by their classroom teacher.

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Was I allowed to do that in my class?

Using Voki… Speaking avatars as learning tools

Using WordPress as a learning diary

Open Source Mapping Project…

Have you policies to support tablets and apps in Modern Foreign Languages in the school you teach in? Have you policies to support the student bringing their own device(s) to school? My challenge in 2012…

Four sources of practice based inspiration Katie Lepi: Crowdsourced School Social Media Policy Doug Belshaw: Acceptable Use Policy – feedback required! Max Senges: A Hippocratic Oath for Techies & Policymakers European SchoolNet: Social Media in Learning and Education

Do no harm Participate in deliberation Act responsibly Promote openness and contribute to the commons Respect privacy and confidentiality Max Senges

Write a policy and look for ideas…

..access to Information and Communication Technology gives our students enhanced opportunities to learn, engage, communicate and develop skills that will prepare them for many aspects of life

Cyber- bullying Netiquette Plagiarism

Netiquette …appropriate social behaviour …in a courteous and respectful manner …use trusted sources when conducting research via the Internet

Plagiarism Students should not plagiarise content (copy or use as your own without citing the original creator), including words or images, from the Internet The school will encourage students who create original content to claim ownership of it using a Creative Commons licence.

Cyber-bullying Harassing, flaming, denigrating, impersonating, outing, tricking, excluding and cyber-stalking are all examples of cyber-bullying. Don’t be mean. Don’t send s or post comments or photos with the intent of scaring, hurting, or intimidating someone else.

Try …not to start defining or naming technologies …to focus on the behaviours of people using technologies

Principal and the Board of Management Keep them informed at all stages of development

Ongoing promotion of Social Media Policy Presentations within a reasonably short period of time First to Third Year-year Fourth to Sixth-year Teaching colleagues and Special Needs Assistants Parents

Constant Key Messages Respect yourself and each other online Mind your devices Respect the network Don’t copy Be creative