Good morning all,

The unrelenting proliferation of Web 2.0 tools means it’s always a good time to be thinking about your Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and in relation to the latest and greatest tools out there for students and staff. One of the best resources available to do just that is School AUP 2.0.

School AUP 2.0 is a wiki* developed by my friend and colleague David Warlick. It’s no lame static collection of dusty AUPs from a million years ago; it’s a constantly-changing clearinghouse of information complied by not just David but hundreds (thousands?) of other educators – people just like you and me – who use the power of the web itself (specifically, the two tagging services Diigo.com and Delicious.com) to ‘tag‘ information they feel is relevant. This might be an actual, complete AUP posted online, an article in a professional magazine about acceptable use, or even a blog post on the subject. It’s super easy, too. If you don’t have a Delicious or Diigo account yet, take this opportunity to sign up now!)

So, you think you have a pretty solid AUP? Awesome! Check out the AUP Guides page and see how yours stacks up. Need to start from scratch? The Examples page will prime your creative pump. Want to push the envelope and be among the first schools to embrace use of cell phones in the classroom? The Cell Phone Policies page is just for you.

The power of this tool is that now that David has set it up, it’s a leaving, breathing, organically-growing entity (ok it’s not breathing but you get what I mean). Anyone can contribute to it. Everyone HAS to contribute to it, or it will stagnate and eventually become irrelevant.

So what do you think? Go ahead, mine the wiki for the best it has to offer. Then, give something back. Use your Delicious or Diigo account and tag some resources you don’t see listed! It’s all about the collective, and that means you and me!

Hope this helps!

-kj-

* – using Wikipedia to define a wiki, how’s that for a circular reference? ;-)

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