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Acceptable Use Policies

With Internet access becoming more and more common within our schools, it is clear that a clear set of guidelines for the use of the resources that this access provides are needed for the guidance of the students, teachers, adminstrators, parents, and board members in developing and understanding policy regarding these resources. HISD's Armadillo--The Texas Studies Gopher began collecting such resources a number of years ago. More and more material that is helpful in this effort is becoming available. Educators should become familiar with this material before limiting access or establishing policy to minimize the risk of controversy and litigation.

• Acceptable and Unacceptable Use of Net Resources from Armadillo
• Acceptable Use Policies: Defining what's allowed online, and what's not From Classroom Connect December 1994/January 1995.
• Houston Independent School District's Acceptable Use Policy and sample student agreement in Spanish and English.
  • The HISD Acceptable Use Policy
  • A Sample AUP Form in English
  • A Sample AUP Form in Spanish
• The New York Times Communications Decency Page A bibliography of materials on the issues from the NY Times.
• Netparents.org A website with resources to assist parents in making decisions regarding the Internet.
• The Internet Filter Assessment Project Very good. The Internet Filter Assessment Project ran from April to September, 1997. It was a volunteer project involving close to 40 librarians, all told. The project manager was Karen G. Schneider, a government librarian and library-press columnist.
• The PICS Homepage The Platform for Internet Content Selection effort is a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access.
• Censorship and the Internet Maintained by Paul Burton, Strathclyde University, Scotland, UK.
• Children Accessing Controversial Information We hope to form a community of people interested in discussing these issues and developing helpful materials. The home page and subscription information to the caci listserv that is maintained by Brendan Kehoe of the Zen Internet Group.
• From Now On The Educational Technology Journal Jamie McKenzie's From Now On contains numerous articles and materials related to Acceptable Use Policy.
• Filtering the Web: a TAle of Fishnet Stocking and Swiss Cheese From Jamieson McKenzie's From Now On
• The Internet Advocate. A Librarian's attempt to provide material for decision-making.
• Appropriate use policy and other access policy and procedure from the excellent Bellingham, Washington Server
• Sex, Censorship, and the Internet Carl M. Kadie, who is associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is an attorney who has gathered a good deal of case law and best practice information in this excellent discussion.
• The CoVis Network Use Policy and the thinking behind its development.
• Child Safety on the Information Highway.
• Ballad of an Email Terrorist GSN's Al Rogers spells out some ways of dealing with unwelcome, obscene email to a youth.
• ON A SCREEN NEAR YOU: CYBERPORNTime Magazine July 3, 1995, Cover Story by Phillip Elmer-Dewitt. It's popular, pervasive and surprisingly perverse, according to the first survey of online erotica. And there's no easy way to stamp it out.
• The Cyberporn Debate The Time Article cited above started a great debate: This site contains an excellent depository of information regarding this debate.
• Marketing Pornography on the Internet by Marty Rimm. The Study that prompted the Time Article above.
• A Detailed Analysis of the Conceptual, Logical, and Methodological Flaws in the Article: "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway" July 2, 1995 (version 1.00) Donna L. Hoffman & Thomas P. Novak Associate Professors of Management Co-Directors, Project 2000 Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University
• A Detailed Critique of the TIME Article: "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn (DeWitt, 7/3/95)" July 1, 1995 (version 1.01) Donna L. Hoffman & Thomas P. Novak Associate Professors of Management Co-Directors, Project 2000 Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University
• A Preliminary Discussion of Methodological Peculiarities in the Rimm Study of Pornography on the "Information Superhighway" June 28, 1995 David G. Post Visiting Associate Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Dpost@eff.org, or Dpostn00@Counsel.com
• Comments from the Well Media Conference regarding the July 3 Time Article Jim Thomas, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Northern Illinois University.
• INTERNET: FIRE STORM ON THE COMPUTER NETS A new study of cyberporn, reported in a TIME cover story, sparks controversy. Times' article regarding the flurry of discussion that started following their article on the Rimm Study. From the July 24, 1995 article.
• Time Magazine's Letters to the Editor From the July 24, 1995 issue. Most of these letters deal with the Cyberporn Story.
• Special Focus: The Cyberporn Fallout. Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine ISSN 1076-027X / Volume 2, Number 8 / August 1, 1995
• Surfwatch Information regarding one of the new clients that blocks access to sites deemed inappropriate.
• K12 Acceptable Use Policies from Nancy Willard at Internet Marketing Services. An excellent overview of the problems, pitfalls, and solutions.
• Censorship, Freedom of Speech, and Child Safety on the Internet
• Armadillo's Editorial Regarding the Need for a Solution The fun part is only available for Netscape 1.1N browsers with "server push." (Thanks to Multimedia Resource Company--webmaster@mmrcorp.com)

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January 6, 1998