Brian Heisman

Learning Support

Sullivan County Elementary School

heisman@epix.net 

 

 

This will be my fifth year teaching for the Sullivan County School District. I previously taught for six years as a Learning Support teacher for the Lake-Lehman School District. I reside in Laporte Twp, with my wife Robin, and my two daughters Jade and Kadyn. Jade is my Cross Country All Star!

 

In my spare time, I run with the Laporte Volunteer Fire Company as a Captain and First Responder.

 

Assignment # 1

Heisman search engine assignment.doc

 

Internet Policy

815 Acceptable Use of Networks & Computer Resources.doc 

 

 

Access

1.    E-Mail Account for Students.

Students may have access through a classroom account. Students may be provided with an individual account to use for limited educational purposes. An agreement signed by the student and his/her parent or legal guardian is required in order for a student to be issued an individual account. 

 

2.    E-Mail Accounts for District Employees and Board Members.

District employees and Board members may be provided with an individual account.  An agreement signed by the employee is required. An application for an account must be submitted to the data processing manager or the computer coordinator.

 

 3.   Guest Accounts

Guests may receive an individual account with the approval of the computer coordinator if there is a specific, district-related purpose requiring such access.  Use of the system by a guest must be specifically limited to the district-related purpose.  A signed agreement is required and the signature of a parent or legal guardian will be required if the guest is a minor.

 

 

Copyright rules

1.    District policies on copyright shall govern the use of material accessed through the district system.  Because the extent of copyright protection of certain works found on the Internet is unclear, users will make a standard practice of requesting permission from the holder of the work if their use of the material has the potential of being considered an infringement.  Users will be instructed to respect permission when appropriate.

 

2.   Staff and students shall not plagiarize.  Teachers shall instruct students in appropriate research and citation practices.

 

3.    The illegal use of copyrighted software by students and staff is prohibited.  Any data uploaded to or downloaded from the network shall be subject to fair use guidelines 

 

Privacy issues

 

Users shall not re-post a message that was sent to them privately without permission of the person who sent them the message.

 

Users shall no post private information about another person.

 

System users have a limited privacy expectation in the contents of their personal files on the district system.

 

Routine maintenance and monitoring of the system may lead to discovery that the user has violated or is violating the District Acceptable Use Policy, the discipline policy, or the law.

 

An individual search may be conducted if there is reasonable suspicion that a user has violated or is violating the law or district policies.  The nature of the investigation will be reasonable and in the context of the nature of the alleged violation.

 

District employees should be aware that their personal files are discoverable under state public records law.

 

Search and Seizure

1.    System users have a limited privacy expectation in the contents of their personal files on the district system.

 

2.   Routine maintenance and monitoring of the system may lead to discovery that the user has violated or is violating the District Acceptable Use Policy, the discipline policy, or the law.

 

 3.   An individual search may be conducted if there is reasonable suspicion that a user has violated or is violating the law or district policies.  The nature of the investigation will be reasonable and in the context of the nature of the alleged violation.

 

 4.   District employees should be aware that their personal files are discoverable under state public records law.

 

 

Assignment - Fireworks

fireworkpractice.jpg

fireworkpractice2.jpg

 

Assignment - HTML

Heisman html questions.doc

first web page

heismanindex.html

second web page

heismanbfg.html 

 

 

Assignment - Group Project

RSS in Plain English - Video

Google Reader

Subscribing to RSS Feeds.ppt

 

Assignment - Dreamweaver

lvfc.html

 

Assignment - Final Project

Schoolwires - Heisman

I took all of my basic classroom pages on Schoolwires and revamped them.  The first revamping of the site was the welcome page with the "Real Heisman Award" picture.  Before, I had a poem on differences that no one really, looked at.  I used Fireworks to incorporate 5 images into the one Heisman Award.  I think the kids will get a real charge out of it.  I also added a horizontal line and information relating to the Heisman Trophy.  The second page was About me.  I needed to update email link and added an ordered list, table (0 border) and changed the text.  The page also needed a link for the wiredsafety info, last sentence.  The Need a Resource? page got a .pdf file added for the Internet Safety booklet for parents from the Wired Safety site.  I also added an image from wiredsafety superheroes and linked it.  I did add a colorful table to the assignment page, but I may or may not use it for the start of the school depending on the students I have.  The math link page I added a picture.  Basically, I cleaned up the rest of my schoolwire pages that were Special Ed. related.