Netbook Protocols

Parent Responsibilities:

    1. Pay the $40 bond and sign the rental agreement or pay the total amount up front to get their child started in the Netbook Programme

    2. Help the child care for and protect the netbook once it begins going home.

    3. Help guide & assist children to use the netbook and associated infrastructure for agreed purposes in the appropriate manner

    4. Make monthly payments on time if they have a rental agreement.

Student Responsibilities:

    1. Take all care to protect the netbook

    2. Protect their PIN/Identity/Password

    3. Use the netbook for agreed purposes in the appropriate manner

    4. Ensure school work is kept in the Google Apps environment designed for their use and in other approved Web 2.0 repositories.

    5. Lock the netbook in the agreed storage space when leaving the room for any reason.

Teacher Responsibilities:

    1. As far as is practicable ensure students use netbooks and associated infrastructure for agreed purposes in the appropriate manner.

    2. Use the Teacher Dashboard to manage and interact with student work

    3. Surveil student work regularly and provide meaningful feedback/feedforward to lead to improved student outcomes

    4. Help, guide, assist and manage the way students interact with others both within and external to the school via this online environment and work to ensure that emerging relationships are positive for all concerned.

    5. See that netbooks are locked in the agreed storage space when students or class leave the room.

Accessories:

Students are permitted to 'Bling' their netbook within boundaries. They may purchase as accessories

    1. A sturdy netbook bag

    2. A USB mouse

    3. A USB stick

    4. headphones

NO student is permitted to bring an Apple mouse to school.

This is to avoid confusion with our school Apple meece. This means teachers have no difficulty identifying missing school meece. Please do not disconnect them from our multimedia machines for them to use temporarily. Keep this as a strict rule. Apart from starting a bad habit, those fragile wires snap easily, and we can't replace them with expensive Apple meece when they break.

NB: No teacher should have an Apple mouse for personal use either if it belongs to the school. If you require one, use one of the 3rd party ones. The Apple ones are precious and are to be used by children on our Apple computers.