Summary+Overview

=Summary Overview=


 * Topic**
 * Revisiting, updating, and recommitting to the school system's **Acceptable Use Policy** (AUP)
 * Understanding how AUP relates to the increased use of //social networking// sites among staff and students

Classroom Teachers
 * Target Audience**

The Alexandria City Public Schools' Acceptable Use Policy was last updated in 2007. The use of social networking tools by staff and students has exploded since then, and the document needs to be revised to address the new issues and concerns brought about by the use of Web 2.0 tools in and out of the classroom. While schools anticipate the revision to be approved by the School Board and dispersed among all stakeholders, staff members need to be made aware of the //legal issues// that apply to them and to their students and to consider best practices for social networking in the digital age.
 * Rationale**


 * Goals**
 * Understand the school division's current Acceptable Use Policy
 * Understand the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS*T)
 * Model and integrate appropriate social networking tools in teaching and learning through the school system's Blackboard program
 * Understand the ramifications for school personnel of maintaining public social networking accounts like Facebook and MySpace