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RMS Technology Staff and Assistants:.
Marty Warren, RMS Technology Coordinator; 6th and 7th Grade
Computer Literacy Teacher
Chad Behre, 7th & 8th Grade Computer Literacy Teacher
Kate Bates, Technology Assistant, iMac Lab
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
Laptops - three full classroom sets used in classrooms
TECHNOLOGY GUIDELINES
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 teacher's
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 Student File Server
Your child can access his or her work files from home using a new link on the
RMS Home page. Under the heading Media. Click on School File Server. Or: https://rms.dresden.us
Your child will see a login page with the heading Rumpus 7. This page has login
and password fields which match his or her Universal Login ID. (The same one
they use for everything)
This is a secure gateway for the student to access, download/upload homework
to the same folders he or she created on school computers.
For students and parents who want to access grades via Power School, send and
recieve Gmail and Google documents, and interact with Moodle for homework there
is an instructional site here: Click
here!
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/Imac Lab.
- 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, iPods, and headphones are not permitted during school hours without express permission of supervising adult.
- 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
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