Mr Hammerlund

Today I came across the post below. Since I have been thinking about the RUP, I was reading a blogpost with the AUP and student safety in mind.  Concern about student safety while online and use of digital tools is undoubtedly valid. Every educator knows the best and the worst that the human mind has produced can be found somewhere on the Internet. We believe it is our moral obligation as educators to keep students safe, while simultaneously enabling them to create responsible digital footprints. Unfortunately, many school districts’ filtering policies were developed before the rise of interactive web tools, social media, and mobile technologies. Thomas C. McMurray A few years ago, I was taking the COETAIL course and the second module had us create an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) for our school. It was great because at the time I was at a small school that did not have one. I was fortunate to be taking the course at the same time as a coworker in HS. So I ended up making one for th...

Photos have been a pain in my side this year. My go-to Photos app is Google Photos, and fortunately, it is for my school as well. But lately, some teachers have been saying that the pictures are not automatically uploading.  I am not sure what causes them to not upload and I have not been able to reproduce it.  Another issue is the way iCloud works and how all your pictures are kept on all your devices. It doesn't work with the smallish hard drives we have. What I think we will do next year is: Have both the Apples Photos and the Google Photos apps on the devices Connect to iCloud Teach teachers how iCloud works and that they should use their laptop as the primary device Once a month, curate your monthly photos and back up to Google Photos Use any photos you want Delete your photos