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Just
a gentle reminder that the District’s
email system
should be used for school business and educational purposes.
You
may use it for occasional personal use, however, please refrain from
subscribing to large mailing lists such as Macy’s, J.C.
Penny’s or L.L Bean. Also, do
not use the RCS Email system to advertise personal items for sale or to
conduct any type of non-school business activities.
The
size of staff mailboxes has been steadily growing. I haven’t put
any limit on the size, but would ask everyone to please delete messages
that are no longer needed. Remember that a deleted message is moved to
your Deleted Items folder. To completely delete it from the Email system,
right click on the deleted items folder and select “empty deleted items”.
Staff
may access other Email systems from computers located in the faculty
rooms at each building.
Loading,
downloading, copying or duplicating music
Is it
ok for me to have digital music or movie files on my computer?
Sometimes.
A
little background first. Digital music files are obtained in
different ways. They can be downloaded legally from many different music
sites or illegally from music sharing services. Additionally, many
software programs will copy or “rip” music
from a CD to a
digital music file. For example, Apple’s ITunes program
will take any CD and copy it to a digital music file format on your Hard
Drive. This music can then be transferred to a portable device like an
IPod.
We
have been noticing an increase in the number of school computers with various
types of digital music files. Some of these files have been downloaded
while others are entire albums copied from CD’s. It is impossible for us to determine the legality of digital
music, therefore have adopted guidelines to help answer this question.
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All
Copyrighted Digital Music or Video will follow the Fair Use Guidelines
For Educational Multimedia. Most, if not all, of the major U.S. owners
of copyrighted material helped to produce these guidelines and many have
already agreed to endorse the document. Please review these
guidelines and share with your students at http://www2/technology/fairuse.htm.
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Copyrighted
Digital Music or Video files should only loaded on RCS computer stations
for educational, curriculum-based purposes. I.e., the digital multimedia
is directly related to your class work and will be used in class
or in a student presentation.
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RCS
Computer equipment will not be used to download, rip, copy or duplicate
copyrighted multimedia in any way. This includes copyrighted CD’s and DVD’s.
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You
may use the RCS computer to play CD’s or DVD’s
that are
original, not copies.
Policy
on Computer Use and Internet Access
RCS Board Policy 6470
The
following are links to the District Policies and Administrative
Procedures.
Administrative
Procedures
Fair Use Guidelines
User Agreement for Staff
User Agreement for
Students
For
more information, contact the Director of Technology's Office.
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