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 * Questions/Problem:**
 * 1) How can we promote Web2.0 tools to our elementary teaching colleagues if the current SAU16 Acceptable Use Policy restricts their use in the classroom?
 * 2) As members of the Acceptable Use Policy Committee charged with rewriting our current document, how can we help to create a document that can reflect 21st century literacies and technology demands?
 * 3) When the Responsible Use Policy is approved by the SAU16 Policy Committee, how can we inform the district school boards, administrators, teachers, parents, and students about its merits and the possibilities it provides for our students' 21st century learning experiences?

The Team Tony Forgot, comprised of one to two teachers representing five elementary schools in our district, is excited with the concepts, ideas, tools, and more importantly, the community and network that we have begun to create as a result of PLP. However, as we discussed creating a project where we can **"pay [our learning] forward"** by creating a professional learning community, we came to understand that our current [|Acceptable Use Policy] is too restrictive for teachers and students to integrate these 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 following excerpt from the [|current AUP] demonstrates the policy's limitations for web2.0 applications: "Students and staff will be allowed to produce materials for electronic publication on servers for educational purposes. administration, teachers, and staff will monitor these materials to ensure compliance with content standards."

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**. After several Skype meetings, a consensus was reached and the [|Exeter School Board,SAU 16 Responsible Computer, Network, and Internet Use](RUP) document was formally presented to SAU16 Policy Committee. Our group will advance the implementation of the Responsible Computer, Network and Internet Use policy with a presentation that can be shown as part of a new AUP/RUP discussion with school boards, other teachers, and parents that will inform them about 21st Century Learning and Web 2.0.