RMS Technology

TECHNOLOGY STAFF

RMS Technology Staff and Assistants:.

  • Marty Warren, RMS Technology Coorinator; 6th Grade Computer Literacy Teacher
  • Tegan Towle-Kimball, Technology Assistant, iMac Lab
  • Glenna Giveans , 7th & 8th Grade Computer Literacy Teacher
  • Chris Charlebois, Computer Literacy Assistant
Technology Committee: The Tech Committee meets once a week. It oversees technology in the school and also serves as a resource and clearing house for technology matters and issues for staff and students. It sets policy, recommends the purchase of new technological equipment and supplies, creates the technology budget, and helps educate the staff with Tech Talks at staff meetings and periodic handouts. It also deals with ethical issues concerning computer use at school. The tech committee consists of representatives from the technology staff and the teaching staff.

School Computers: The Richmond School has two computer labs and many additional computers in the media center and classrooms throughout the school. All computers in the school permit access to the school servers.

  • Computer Literacy Lab - used for computer literacy classes for all three grades to meet the K-12 requirements.
  • iMac Lab - used by students throughout the day: full classes or drop ins from classes or studies
  • iBooks - three full classroom sets used in classrooms

RMS TECHNOLOGY GUIDELINES

Web Access

Website Selection

Home Access of Server

Personal Technology Use

World Wide Web Access Guidelines

General Guidelines: At the Richmond School, we provide materials to meet the informational needs of our school community in keeping with First Amendment rights. The Richmond staff recognizes that students should have full, confidential, and unrestricted access to information. As with print and other non-print materials, parents are urged to discuss with their children the kinds of Internet locations they wish their children to use and to avoid. Because of the diversity in family values in our community, it would be inappropriate for our materials to reflect any particular standards or values.

Internet Rules For Personal Safety and Appropriate Use: The unique attributes of the World Wide Web demand certain guidelines for access in order to assure the safety and well-being of our students. Students are expected to follow clearly defined Internet rules.

  • Protect yourself by never giving out personal names on the Internet. This is a serious safety issue. Do not identify yourself or others with any personal information (name, phone number, address, etc.)
  • Electronic communication may be used only for school purposes with a teacherís permission.
  • Sites should only contain words, terms or images that students would say or use in front of a teacher, parent, or other adult.
  • Ask a teacher to pre-approve research websites not listed in our schools' Internet subscription list. Be prepared to identify the author or organization who produced this site.
  • Remember to include websites in your bibliography and cite all inserted graphics from sites.

Finding Quality Websites

If used appropriately and critically, the Internet can be an excellent source of information. However, it can be difficult for students to determine the quality of information found on the Internet. The library media staff and teachers work with students to help them ascertain the authorship and value of site information for research purposes. Teachers encourage students to use the subscriptions provided and learn how to locate acceptable sites for research. Some criteria are listed below:

  • Begin search with:
  • To evaluate a website, ask the following questions:
    • What is the purpose of the site? Does the author have a bias?
    • Is the information fact or opinion?
    • What are the credentials of the author?
    • What does the URL mean?
  • To understand the final letters in a URL
    • .edu designates a college or university - look carefully at authorship: this can be student work.
    • .gov designates a government agency or organization
    • .org designates a non-profit organization
    • .com designates a commercial site with advertising
    • .net designates an Internet service provider

Home Access of the RMS Server

For Macs running OSX

  1. Connect to your internet service provider
  2. Under the Go menu, choose "Connect to Server"
  3. In the window that appears type "rms.dresden.us" into the address box
  4. At the login window, continue to log in the usual way.

For Macs running OS9:

  1. Connect to your internet service provider from home (e.g. ValleyNet, AOL, Compuserve etc.)
  2. Go to the Apple Menu-Chooser
  3. Click the Appleshare icon
  4. Click the Server IP Address Button (button on the lower right side of window)
  5. Type "rms.dresden.us" and click the connect button
  6. At the login window, continue to log in the usual way

For Windows: Please email Mr. Warren to get PC Access to the RMS Server from home.

Personal Technology Use Policy

  • All technology use must conform to RMS Behavioral Expectations:
    • To Respect Oneself
    • To Respect and Cooperate with Others
    • To Take Academic and Personal Responsibility
    • To Have Regard for Health and Safety
    • To Solve Conflicts in a Fair Way
    • To Respect Property and Community
  • Personal computers must be registered with the Technology Office.
  • Students may not use personal technology in unsupervised areas (e.g. lobby before school, hallways, etc.).
  • Personal technology use at RMS is for academic purposes only, unless permission for a specific non-academic use is granted by the supervising adult.
  • Cell phones and headphones are not permitted.
  • Richmond Staff reserves the right to inspect personal technology at any time.
  • Personal technology found to contain software that may be a detriment to the RMS network will be confiscated and released only to a parent or guardian.
  • Any damage to school technology caused by student use of personal technology will result in disciplinary action and the possibility of monetary restitution.
  • Violation of any of the above provisions may result in the loss of Personal Technology Privileges at RMS.

    Enacted by the RMS Technology Committee, 2005