Acceptable+Use+Policy+Wiki

About Our Project:
This Wiki was set up by Robyn Eaton, ITS at the Brown Middle School and Brenda Doucette, ITS at 3 elementary schools in Newton, MA. As part of an online course, offered via the EDCO collborative, we have chosen to create our final project as a wiki in order to help produce an AUP to address web 2.0 tool usage in the classroom. Specifically, we want your input into creating an AUP for classroom/teacher Blogs.

What are wikis?

 * Wikis are free, online writing spaces. Wikis use simple formatting rules, so you don't need to understand HTML or an HTML authoring tools, such as Dreamweaver to contribute.
 * For some, wikis convey a highly collaborative view of composing and creativity. People who contribute to a wiki need to understand that their words may be deleted and changed by others.
 * Wiki authors do not claim ownership of a text.
 * When writers contribute to a public wiki, their work could potentially be read by millions of readers.
 * Wikis give focus to the last draft, yet wikis provide a history. Each time the text is changed, a new version is saved. Anyone can go back later and see previous versions. This allows teachers and students to see the writing process in action.*
 * Wikis are generally published online, though desktop and gated wikis are possible. Permissions can be set to limit the readers and writers who participate.
 * Textual authority is dialogical. Revision is privileged in the wiki. Each new reader can suddenly become a writer. The draft that matters is the last draft. Power and authority are given to the community rather than an individual or official staff.
 * Wikis are designed specifically as a writing space. They are not a presentation space nor a course management system. Wikis make it possible - and necessary - for writers to continually build upon, revise, and edit an emerging text.
 * [|adapted from "For Teachers New to Wikis"]