Laptop Information

October 1, 2007
Revised

Guidelines for Laptop Computers

1. Care of your laptop:
• Keep all food and drinks away from your computer.
• Once the iBook is issued to you, you are responsible for it at all times.
• Do not stack any material on top of the iBook.
• Do not physically mark up the iBook or its storage case, ie: no stickers, tape...
• Keep your iBook in its storage case. Especially when carrying it. Be sure the case is zipped. (While charging, remove the laptop from the case. The G4 processor may over heat the iBook if not allowed air to flow around the iBook while charging.)
2. General Rules, Reminders, and Guidelines:
•You are the only person to use your computer.
•Never share or swap with others.
•Keep passwords confidential.
•No downloading of anything without teacher permission.
•Printing at School with teacher permission only. Preview first before you print.
•The iBooks should never be left unattended (during lunch, in the locker room, after school, before, during, or after extracurricular activities, etc.).
•Laptops will be stored in homeroom in designated cabinets or storage shelves.
Students may obtain their laptop from homerooms according to the access to locker schedule: Homeroom, between periods 3 & 4, before/after lunch, and at the end of day. Unless otherwise arranged with your homeroom teacher.
•Laptops are returned to homerooms at the end of the day for storage and charging. Only those students (having been trained by WJHS) and giving their homeroom teacher a signed laptop take home slip, may take their laptop home. It must come back to school The next school day fully charged.
•Laptops may be used in study halls for completion of academic work and research as assigned by teachers. Recreational “surfing” of the internet is prohibited.
•The game chess is on every laptop. You may receive a free pass to play chess during your study hall from a Grade 7 teacher if all your work has been completed on time and in an acceptable manner. Present the pass to your study hall teacher when you wish to play. The teacher keeps the pass. It is a one use pass.
•Laptops must not be left unattended in hallways, on shelves, etc. At lunch laptops would be left in period 5 classroom or brought into the cafeteria and placed on the designated laptop shelves. They shall not be stacked more than 3 high, and should not be stacked if there is enough room for it to be avoidable. At the beginning of PE class the iBook should be placed in the PE storage closet on the laptop shelf.
3. Internet Rules, Reminders, and Guidelines:
Social Networking Services(Like MySpace) are not allowed on school computers.
•The school’s acceptable use policy should be followed at all times.
Email Rules, Reminders, and Guidelines:
•When working on another computer, you can email yourself an assignment so
that it is waiting for you when you are back on your iBook.
•The ability to email your peers, teachers, parents, etc. should only be done for educational reasons. This is not a chatroom! Your emails can be monitored.
•Any inappropriate use of your email will result in your email privileges being taken away for a period of time. The length of time email privileges are taken away from you will increase with each reported incident. Severe incidents will result in email being taken from you indefinitely, and possible loss of computer privileges.
4. Any inappropriate use or neglectful care of your computer may result in your iBook computer being taken away for a period of time.
5. Click here for the PDF version of the "Take the Laptop Home" permission slip. Only those students who attended Laptop Training at Winslow Junior high may take their laptop home using this permisson slip..

This is a new two for one sheet. Please cut it in half before handing it in, Otherwise it will only count for one takehome privilege, not two.