<ul class='diigo-linkroll'><li><p class='diigo-link'><a rel='nofollow' href='http://www.chitowndailynews.org/blogs/The_City_Desk/Board_of_Ed_Overhauls_galore,31814'>Board of Ed: Overhauls galore | Chicago News, Events and Culture | Chi-Town Daily News |</a></p><p class='diigo-description'>CPS vows to review acceptable use policy</p><p class='diigo-tags'><a href='http://groups.diigo.com/cloud/cuip-in-the-schools'>Tags</a>: <a href='http://groups.diigo.com/cuip-in-the-schools/bookmark/tag/cpstechinthenews'>cpstechinthenews</a>, <a href='http://groups.diigo.com/cuip-in-the-schools/bookmark/tag/cps'>cps</a>, <a href='http://groups.diigo.com/cuip-in-the-schools/bookmark/tag/aup'>aup</a>, <a href='http://groups.diigo.com/cuip-in-the-schools/bookmark/tag/policy'>policy</a></p><ul class='diigo-highlights'><li><div class="content"><p>CPS will take another look at its new computer usage policy after hearing complaints from many teachers that the rules are too restrictive.</p>
<p>The policy requires teachers to store class-related content like web pages and videos on CPS servers, but only allocates 100 megabytes of storage to each teacher. That small amount of space can be quickly filled by just a few videos. And teachers would be barred from directing students to other sites not hosted on CPS computers – for example, a class blog hosted by the teacher.</p>
<p>Xian Barrett, a Julian High School teacher who attended the meeting, said the new policy, adopted last month, is having a “chilling effect on how teachers can use technology in classrooms, (and) discourages teachers from using the Internet in general.”</p>
<p>CPS chief Ron Huberman said the policy would be reviewed and tweaked, but did not provide specifics.</p>
<p>“I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from a lot of teachers that this policy is not going to work for them,” Huberman said in response. “And as a result we’re going to revisit it.”</p></div></li></ul></li></ul><br />Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of <strong>CUIP in the Schools</strong> <a href='http://groups.diigo.com/groups/cuip-in-the-schools'>group favorite links</a> are here.