INTERNET

Rules

HHS Computer Lab

1.  No use of any e-mail whether it be reading or sending or receiving;

2.  No downloading whatsoever;

3.  No unauthorized web sites meaning sites that are obscene, abusive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, damaging, or illegal and if a student is accidentally linked to such a site it must be reported immediately to their instructor or computer lab instructor, Students may not use sites that offer links to sites that are obscene, abusive, sexually oriented etc.;

4.  Students are not allowed to access internet with another persons ID/password;

5.  Students are not allowed to go to chat rooms;

6.  Use of internet is for education purposes only and no access to games;

7.  Students will not send or post messages;

8.  Students will follow copyright rules for multimedia:

  1. 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, of a motion media clip;
  2. 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less, of a musical work, whether audio or audiovisual;
  3. No more than 5 images of a single artist or photographer;
  4. 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less, of text materials;

9.  Students must record and acknowledge all public domain work (meaning free to use without permission). In order to cite an internet source students will do the following:

Author’s name (if known) last name first. Title of the page (underlined if it is a full work, or in quotations if it is an article or part of a larger work). Date of publication. Publisher. Date you last visited the site. URL in brackets < >. Alphabetize your list and indent all data after the first line of each entry. See simple example below:

CIA World Fact Book. 1999. Central Intelligence Agency. 3 Aug. 1999.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html.

10.  Students will respect the rights of copyright owners. If a student wishes to reproduce a work that is protected by a copyright they must request permission from the copyright owner. If given permission to use that work the student must maintain a copy of the permission.

11.  It is illegal to copy software;

12.  Students are not to access Internet unless given permission by their instructor.

If a student does not abide by these rules then this student can lose their access to Internet for the remainder of the year.