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Welcome to Establishing School Safety in the 21st Century
**Overview**: This course provides an opportunity for teachers, technology coordinators, and other school leaders to learn about school legal and policy issues involved in creating safe 21st century learning environments. It is critical for educators to understand the legal issues involved with providing Internet access, especially when it comes to new Web 2.0 tools used for social networking and collaborative learning.

//Liz comment: Excellent job on your overview, Scott and Cathy. Your course covers such an important topic, and your overview concisely captures what participants will learn. The only thing I would suggest adding is perhaps one sentence that mentions what key product/project participants will take away from the course (you could actually just borrow the statement below in your goals section).//

**Course Audience:** Tech Coordinators, Teachers and Specialists, School Administrators


 * Course Goals:** This course will enable participants to understand some of the legal and policy issues involved in creating and using 21st century learning environments including:
 * How multiple sources of law provide frameworks and standards that govern schools in this area
 * Issues to consider when developing policies, practices or procedures addressing on-site and off-site internet use by students and staff
 * School liability for online student harassment or derogatory speech by students including First amendment issues and discipline issues that can arise with online activity


 * Teachers** and **specialists** participating in this course will use their understanding of digital citizenship in the 21st century to design or adapt classroom activities for their students.
 * Administrators** participating in this course will use their understanding of digital citizenship in the 21st century to recommend adaptations to school policies and practices.

//Liz comment: Your goals look good - they're clearly articulated, cover worthwhile concepts, and they seem realistically achievable in a six week course. Eventually it might be helpful to break them down further into specific and measurable objectives// //(for example, which specific laws, frameworks and standards do participants need to be familiar with?) Also, are the goals all the same for teachers and administrators (given that the course product is different for these two audiences)?//

Unit 1 - Orientation Week
The orientation unit for this course focuses on your understanding of online learning and the use of online delivery systems to effectively achieve learning. You will review articles on online learning as well as school policies and practices. The first article will introduce you to online learning and give you some insight into the uses and development of online learning over the years. The second article will prepare you with prior knowledge or information you might need to understand the content of the course. You will explore the course and try out various content delivery features that we will be using throughout the course. You are encouraged to continue to explore all the features of the delivery system and increase your comfort level with taking an online course. //Liz comment: I like your ideas here - this is not just the standard orientation but will already be priming the pump for participants to think about Web 2.0 trends and internet use in their schools. Nice work.//

Unit 2 - Legal Aspects of Internet Use

 * Internet Use in the 21st Century Classroom
 * What does it look like in your school/district?
 * What future trends of Web 2.0 must be considered?
 * RSAs
 * School Approval Standards
 * Federal Laws and regulations

In this unit, you will begin by looking at typical uses of the Internet among today's youth. You will become acquainted with some of the state and federal laws and standards that govern today's digital educational environment, looking at how these legal aspects influence school policies and, in turn, impact your work as an educator. A review of the current policies that exist within your own school district will help you lay a foundation for your final project for this course.

//Liz comment: This looks like exactly the information you'll need to lay the foundation for what is to come later in the course... I think your key challenge here will be to keep your learners engaged in what may appear to be somewhat dry material. Scott, I'm guessing you have some tricks up your sleeve from teaching law online! ;-)//

Unit 3 - Internet Use by Students
//Liz comment: Excellent, meaty content here, and topics that will definitely be engaging to folks since they're issues teachers deal with on a regular basis.//
 * school’s obligation to protect students and ability to discipline students for things they do online while at school- cyberbullying, harassment, derogatory comments about school and staff, etc
 * using filters for computers in school
 * Teacher supervision of sites that students visit and use
 * Staff usage – visiting inappropriate sites, storing inappropriate info, email usage

Unit 4 - Off-site Internet use by students or staff
//Liz comment: Hmmm - this is a fascinating set of issues, too, and ones I wouldn't necessarily have considered within the realm of school responsibility. I like your placement of this right after the session on on-site internet use - it'll be interesting to see the differences and similarities.//
 * school’s obligation to protect students
 * School’s ability, inability, and liability for disciplining students for off-campus online activity like cyber-bullying, harassment, derogatory comments about school and staff, etc etc
 * School’s ability, inability, and liability for taking adverse employment actions with staff for off-campus online activity

Unit 5 - Copyright and Plagiarism Issues
//Liz comment: Yes, copyright is a biggie, and so often misunderstood... by the way, there are a number of good resources in Session Four of our course (look for the link to the additional page of copyright resources// //at the bottom of the readings section) - feel free to use any of these that are relevant. Janis Bruwelheide at the University of Montana also has a great book on copyright in education (including lots on digital resources) - I think some or all of it is online as well.//
 * Teachers using info from the web to teach
 * Students using info from the web in their assignments
 * Fair use
 * Citing sources

Read Parts 1 through 5 of Education World's Copyright Series http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr280a.shtml

Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml

Visit Copyright Bay http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/

Fair use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia [|//www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm//]

Take the Copyrightkids.org interactive copyright challenge quiz. http://www.copyrightkids.org/quizframes.htm NOTE: Click the select button after you enter your answer to each question and it will provide you feedback on your response.

"The copyright challenge quiz is reproduced from the copyrightkids.org website courtesy of Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), an initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.. Copyright 2001, The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.,"

Techlearning.com Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers Chart http://www.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_chart.pdf

TechLearning.Com Copyright Guideline Chart for Administrators http://www.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/supplements/CopyrightGuide200506_2.pdf

Preventing Digital Plagiarism by //Caroline McCullen// http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/04/viewpoint.php

Avoiding Plagiarism by the OWL at Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

use some of the articles here too or in place of some above ?? http://www.techlearning.com/hot_topics/copyright.php

Unit 6 - Developing and Updating Acceptable Use Policies

 * Why is the AUP important? How often should it be presented to students and staff?
 * Samples of current AUPs among NH schools
 * Primer on acceptable use policies, RSA 194:3-d, any regs?
 * Need to work in the ICT literacy requirements in Ed 306.42

Unit 7 - Developing Other School Policies?
> > //Liz comment: Fantastic start on your course, you two! Your outline has a clear and logical flow, and it seems like you're planning for just about the right amount of content to introduce in each unit. You're definitely on the right track, and I look forward to seeing the next iteration of your work!//
 * Internet log file retention
 * Storage of student and staff digital files

THINGS TO DISCUSS

Games Resources:
 * All kinds of games and tips on creating them at http://thiagi.com/freebies-and-goodies.html
 * Here is a link specifically to email games - http://thiagi.com/email.html

RESOURCES and INFO
 * In fall of 2007, the Attorney General’s office worked with the Commissioner to distribute Internet Safety booklets to students in middle grades in all NH public schools. A companion website was developed at [|http://www.connectwithyourkids.org].
 * In January 2008, the New Hampshire Affiliate of the International Society for Technology in Education (NHSTE) hosted an Internet Safety workshop for school technology coordinators to discuss measures to improve safety for students. The Attorney General was one of the presenters. View notes from this discussion at...
 * View Internet safety information about various student curriculum and professional development options at http://www.nheon.org/oet/safety.htm
 * Ed 306.42 within the School Approval Standards addresses the topic of ethical, responsible use of technology, inclusive of Internet use. Implementation of these standards typically includes close work with national standards on “digital citizenship” in an effort to ensure that children at all ages have been instructed in safe and responsible use of the Internet. Visit http://www.nheon.org/oet/standards/ICTLiteracy.htm