[MACEP] Anyone providing student email?

Sat Jun 16 13:39:39 PDT 2007

We provide student E-mail accounts upon requests from teachers. They're on 
the same system as our staff accounts, just a different drive. It's all a 
web based system so we can monitor if necessary. We do block the free 
E-mail stuff as it's caused problems. 

Miriam

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Miriam Mann, Technology Coordinator
Oregon Trail School District
36520 S.E. Proctor Rd.
Boring, OR 97009
503-668-0939 (voice), 503-668-0723 (fax)
mannm at ortrail.k12.or.us

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Re: [MACEP] Anyone providing student email?

Very good post Paul. Kids must learn web, TM, blog, and email etiquette in 
schools. Their parents probably can not teach this stuff. They need to 
know about spam and phishing. Saying that it is too hard to control and we 
don't want to take the risks is just taking the easy way out. As 
educatiors, sticking our heads in the sand should not be an option.

John
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there." -----  Will Rogers

On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:

On 6/14/07, charlie irish <irishphoto at verizon.net> wrote:

 We do not provide student e-mail because of our interpretation of CIPA
which requires that content be filtered and there is not any way to do 
that
that we are comfortable with wiuth e-mail.

There are lots of ways to monitor and protect students online. If you
are REALLY concerned about protecting them, then you WILL give them
email access through your school where you can protect them. If you
don't give them email, they'll get it somewhere else without the help
and protection the school can provide.

Do what is best for kids.

It is easier for schools to not give email to students, but it's not
what's best for them.

Oregon standards for technology require this of 5th graders:
* Demonstrate safe use of
communication resources
(e.g. email, web sites,
chat rooms)

* Use appropriate email
etiquette

Today an email address is an entry ticket to a digital world. It's
like having a digital identity and membership card to a world of
information, collaboration and learning.

If you really just don't know how to provide safe email to students,
let's discuss those options here on the list. The requirements of CIPA
are not a roadblock.

I'm offering solutions to the schools I serve in hopes that they will
eventually provide email to all students 4th grade and above. One easy
solution is to use Google mail, run it through your own SMTP server,
grep for nasty words and delete attachments with prohibited
extensions. It's all free and automated.

If you don't have the expertise to set this up, then consider
gaggle.net. They have free email with automatic filtering and several
admin options. The downside is there is advertising. Google lets you
turn off advertising for student email accounts. If you upgrade to the
paid version of gaggle.net, you can turn off the ads. Google is free.

We started giving our 4th graders at Riverdale email back in 1994. The
only problems we've ever had were not related to email but were the
same kinds of problems those same kids would be having on the
playgound, they were rude and mean to each other. Having an email
record of it made it all that much easier to deal with it. [Aside:
Parents could not believe that their little angle could have said
"that" in an email...]

I want ALL of our students to have every competitive advantage they
can get. It's a tough world out there and I want to give them all the
tools they'll need to be successful. Email is one of those tools.

From: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html

What CIPA Requires

   * Schools and libraries subject to CIPA may not receive the
discounts offered by the E-Rate program unless they certify that they
have an Internet safety policy and technology protection measures in
place. An Internet safety policy must include technology protection
measures to block or filter Internet access to pictures that: (a) are
obscene, (b) are child pornography, or (c) are harmful to minors, for
computers that are accessed by minors.

   * Schools subject to CIPA are required to adopt and enforce a
policy to monitor online activities of minors; and

  * Schools and libraries subject to CIPA are required to adopt and
implement a policy addressing: (a) access by minors to inappropriate
matter on the Internet; (b) the safety and security of minors when
using electronic mail, chat rooms, and other forms of direct
electronic communications; (c) unauthorized access, including
so-called "hacking," and other unlawful activities by minors online;
(d) unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal
information regarding minors; and (e) restricting minors' access to
materials harmful to them.

Schools and libraries are required to certify that they have their
safety policies and technology in place before receiving E-rate
funding.

   * CIPA does not affect E-rate funding for schools and libraries
receiving discounts only for telecommunications, such as telephone
service.

   * An authorized person may disable the blocking or filtering
measure during any use by an adult to enable access for bona fide
research or other lawful purposes.

   * CIPA does not require the tracking of Internet use by minors or 
adults.

;-) Paul
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