Teachers will supervise student initiated information search activities and provide support for students as they begin to assume responsibility for becoming independent users of the Internet. Students will only be able to send or receive mail through a teacher or classroom account. Charlottesville City Schools resources will not be available to provide direct e-mail access to an individual student via the Internet. Students who have e-mail accounts from sources outside the school division may not use school resources to access those accounts. While e-mail provides a text based forum for telecommunication, Internet Web Pages, sometimes called Home Pages, offer a means of telecommunication that includes both text and graphics.
Home pages can convey an activity, information, or idea.
Home pages can have either a topic or individual focus. A topic focused home page presents a class activity, project, or information that the school and student are exploring. Charlottesville students will learn to use topic Web pages to convey ideas and to communicate effectively with others. Charlottesville students and teachers will not use school resources to post personal home pages. Web pages can include only text or, as mentioned above, they can also include graphics.