Bellingham School District

Ethics, Email & BSD Network

CHALLENGE: Demonstrate your understanding and compliance with district network rules; practice effective use of email and file-saving using the BSD network.

TASKS

• Review ethics, procedures
• Send an email message summarizing research
• Create and store documents in several locations on network
• Assess your personal computer skills

PRODUCTS

• Signed Internet Permission Form
• Completed Email Assignment
• Folders in your H:drive
• Completed Technology Self-Assessment
• Goal Document stored in H drive

RESOURCES

• Ethics Presentation
• Internet Permission Form
• Don't Copy That Floppy! video
• Outlook Instructions (Office 97-2003)
• For Outlook 2007 Instructions, follow the links under #3, below.
• High School Self-Assessment
• File Saving Instructions

ASSESSMENT

• Successful completion of products.
• Assessed on rules, procedures and ethics throughout the semester.
• Concerns noted by network administrators & communicated to teacher will affect grading.
• Ethics, Email and Network Key Competencies

PROCEDURES

1. View a short PowerPoint presentation on ethics.
2. Sign the Internet permission form. Keep it until the end of class.
3. Open Outlook and practice using these features by linking to these Office 2007 instruction sheets:
   • Calendar
   • Contacts and Distribution Lists
   • Delete unwanted messages
   • Organize messages in folders
   • Special features for sending and receiving messages
4. Use Outlook to complete the following steps:
   • Send an email with an attachment and specific subject to yourself
   • Reply to yourself
   • Reply to All (now you are being Cc'd)
   • Forward that reply to yourself
   • Use the Save As and save it as HTML
   • Create a folder and save all of those emails into it
5. Complete the Email Format assignment.
6. Open file saving instructions and create folders as described on page 2.
7. Open the Technology Self-Assessment and choose Save As...  to save a copy to your Ethics, Email and Network folder. Open the file in your folder and complete the Self-Assessment to see where you might need work.  (Type "x" at the level which best describes your abilities within each application.)  When finished, save your changes to the Self-Assessment.
8. Open a Word document and, based on your Tech Self-Assessment, write three goals you might have to improve your technology use this year. Name the document "TechGoals" and save it to your Tech Connections folder in your H: drive.
9. Check to see if your account has Internet access, by using these outside sites: www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, and www.cob.org
10. You need a parent's signature on your permission slip for Internet access. Take it home. Return it to the library when signed, so your Internet and email will be activated.