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 * Welcome **

**Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year at Leeds High School! As you may know, our buil ****ding was finished last year and is brand new! Leeds High is using Trillion Internet Services as our ISP. Our web access point to the outside world is the microwave tower located behind the car line in the back of our facility. This microwave tower is connected to our building by a series of underground fiber optic cables. Our server connects 220+ computers by direct connection and 3 wireless sections that include 6 wireless hubs per section. We offer administrative, student, and guest logins to our wireless and hard-wired connections. So whether you are in a classroom or outside in our developing eco-scape, you should be able to access the server. Charles Barkley has also provided us with a computer lab, with laptops that can be checked out. The library has printing services, please see the librarian for current costs per page printed. ** **We stay connected at Leeds High School!!! **

**Internet Positives ** //We here at Leeds High School encourage the use of the internet! // **Distance Learning through ACCESS ** We provide classes and remediation through our ACCESS lab. The state department requires that one credit is through distance learning, and our ACCESS lab can provide any regular high school curriculum course via the Web. We only offer Spanish as an on-site instructor taught class here, but through the ACCESS lab you can take French, German, and many other languages. You can also take such things as Trigonometry, Foreign Studies, and Job specific classes through ACCESS. If you fail a course you can take credit recovery through the ACCESS lab. This allows students to work with a different "at their own pace" environment. **Wealth of Information for research ** We encourage students to get information from such sources as .edu sites from universities, .gov sites from our government, and wikipedia to name but a few. The internet has brought together vast amounts of research and data that students have never had access to before. **Offsite access to instruction through Skype classes ** Leeds High School is continueing to partner with Pell City Schools and iAcademy to provide offsite instruction via Skype for Jefferson State Community College's Nursing program. This program is open to juniors and seniors who have passed the Alabama High School Graduation Exam and have maintained a 3.0 or higher grade point average. **The Internet is the ** **Green ** **Wave of the Future! ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">With more and more businesses moving a portion of their business model onto the internet, it is imperative that we get our students internet savy. Continuing Education and job skills also are now requiring a knowledge of how to access and use the internet. We are truly in the digital age and our students will be ready!

**<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Internet Dangers ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Obscene materials ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">While it maybe obvious that adult theme'd sites and images are not allowed, we also do not allow sites with vulgar language, images of extreme violence, gang related, or any other site with questionable content. While our intent is not to limit speech and creative thought, we do want to filter out content that is commonly unacceptable in our society. Leeds City Schools does maintain filtering software to ban most of these sites. While our filtering software is good, it is impossible to filter out all of the sites as new ones are created every day. It is up to our students to use good judgement and avoid these sites. Circumventing our filtering software is strictly prohibited and if caught can lead to suspension or expulsion. We do remind our students that all sites visited while using our servers is saved for future investigations and can be linked to your login. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Child Exploitation ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">There are predators out there that seek to gain access not only to young females, but also to young males. No one is safe from a child predator. We do not allow social networking sites or Internet chat rooms while on our campus as this is the main avenue of attack for child predators. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Identity Theft ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">We encourage our students and facility to never post personal information such as addresses, credit card info, banking information, or any other information that could be gathered off our servers in case our servers are compromised. We use a double firewall to protect our server, but nothing is ever truly safe as long as your connected to the outside world. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Viruses ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">We do not have local side virus protection, but maintain all virus protection on our servers. It is possible to have your computer contract a virus (malicious code) that could impair your computer's performance and adversely affect the school network. If you feel you have contracted a virus please tell your teacher so we can run an anti-virus program on that computer.

**<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Internet Safety Laws ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">COPPA- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">"The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Rule apply to individually identifiable information about a child that is collected online, such as full name, home address, email address, telephone number or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child. The Act and Rule also cover other types of information -- for example, hobbies, interests and information collected through cookies or other types of tracking mechanisms -- when they are tied to individually identifiable information." <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">To learn more about COPPA visit [|COPPA.org]. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">CIPA- Children's Internet Protection Act ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal;">"Schools and libraries subject to CIPA may not receive the discounts offered by the E-rate program unless they certify that they have an Internet safety policy that includes technology protection measures. The protection measures must block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene, (b) child pornography, or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors). Before adopting this Internet safety policy, schools and libraries must provide reasonable notice and hold at least one public hearing or meeting to address the proposal. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal;">Schools subject to CIPA are required to adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal;">Schools and libraries subject to CIPA are required to adopt and implement an Internet safety policy addressing: (a) access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet; (b) the safety and security of minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms, and other forms of direct electronic communications; (c) unauthorized access, including so-called “hacking,” and other unlawful activities by minors online; (d) unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal information regarding minors; and (e) measures restricting minors’ access to materials harmful to them." <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">To learn more about CIPA visit the official [|FCC CIPA site].

**<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leeds City Schools Policy ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;">from [|Leeds City Schools] [|Registration Packet] **<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You must sign the copy of the Internet Policy found in your registration packet. The text from that agreement is as follows: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">INTERNET USE AGREEMENT <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">--- <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Introduction

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> To ensure that students receive a quality education and that employees are able to work in a professional and intellectually stimulating environment, the Leeds City Board of Education (“the Board”) provides students and employees with opportunities to access a variety of technology resources, including the Internet.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">What is the Internet?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> The Internet is an electronic highway connecting thousands of computers all over the world and millions of individual subscribers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Students and teachers, through the Internet, will have access to:

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">1. electronic mail communication with people all over the world; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">2. information from university library catalogs, electronic journals, government sources, and news; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">3. public domain software and shareware of all types; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">4. discussion groups on a variety of topics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Statement of Caution and Consequences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Board policy restricts access to and use of computers and the Internet to instructional and related purposes. However, because of the nature of the technology, it is impossible to ensure that a user intent upon doing so will not be able to gain access to unsuitable material and data through misuse of computers or the Internet. When detected, misuse of equipment to access prohibited or otherwise inappropriate Internet sites are a violation of this agreement as well as Board policy. Violations of this agreement and of Board policy may result in denial or cancellation of access privileges, and are subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct and other applicable policies and regulations. Internet users are also subject to any civil penalties or criminal sanctions that may arise from unlawful use of the Internet.

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**<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Graphics Credits ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Graphics used in this newsletter provided by: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Textanim.com] - Animated Text <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Geekpedia.com] - The Internet World in the Welcome section. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|iOfferPhoto.com] - The positive symbol in Internet Positives. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|RTBWizards.com] - The caution symbol used in Internet Dangers <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Move.com] - The check mark used in Leeds City Schools Internet Policy

**<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Graphics Credits ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Graphics used in this newsletter provided by: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Textanim.com] - Animated Text <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Geekpedia.com] - The Internet World in the Welcome section. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|iOfferPhoto.com] - The positive symbol in Internet Positives. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|RTBWizards.com] - The caution symbol used in Internet Dangers <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: normal;"> [|Move.com] - The check mark used in Leeds City Schools Internet Policy