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=The Team That Tony Forgot = =Project Teaser =

media type="youtube" key="x3-fQYfAHXs" height="385" width="640" **New AUP --- Inform & Promote Best Practices --- Professional Learning Network**--

1. Our PLP group is comprised of one to two teachers representing five elementary schools in our district. During our discussions we discussed how excited we are with the concepts, ideas, tools, and more importantly, the community and network that we have begun to create as a result of PLP. At the same time, we discussed how disappointing it is for us to know that as one or two teachers from the school we represent, it has been hard for us to imagine how we can promote these ideas and perhaps change the culture of our schools on our own. As a result of these discussions, we decided to pursue a project where we can somehow **"pay [our learning] forward"** by creating a professional learning community.

2. After further discussion, we came to understand that our **current AUP** is too restrictive for teachers and students to integrate Web2.0 tools in the classroom. How could we promote Web2.0 tools to our elementary teaching colleagues if the current AUP restricts their use in the classroom? The first part of our teaser poignantly demonstrates the restrictive nature of our current AUP.

3. As a group, we joined a newly formed AUP committee charged with r**ewriting our current document to reflect 21st century literacies and technology demands**. We have been actively participating in SKYPE meetings over the past two months and using Google Docs to formulate a new document that will be presented to the SAU16 policy board in the next few weeks.

4. In developing our new AUP, the committee investigated and decided to adopt [|David Warlick's] method "to embrace the three dimensional nature of today’s info-environment, creating a multi-layered Acceptable Use Document." More significantly, our team decided that our group would develop a project to address the following pieces of [|Warlick's Layer 3: the AUP Encyclopedia]:
 * Educate our colleagues about the new AUP and to the potential web2.0 tools available.
 * Promote and inform our colleagues of best-practice applications of web2.0 tools.
 * Support and promote the institution's policies for the acceptable use of its information infrastructure.

5. How will we do this? We are planning the following pieces of the projects in phases.
 * Conduct a survey that will provide direction for our video and NING development.
 * **Create a presentation** that can be shown as part of a **New AUP Discussion** with school boards, other teachers, and parents that will inform them about 21st Century Learning and Web 2.0. (A "Did You Know" kind of thing.)
 * **Create a NING as a Professional Learning Network**, understanding it would only be a beginning stage. The Ning will be a place for our colleagues to share best practice applications of web2.0 tools, collaborate, and build community. For the first year, we thought we each could encourage a couple of our colleagues to join the Ning. Our goal would be to have this community grow each year.