Laptop Guidelines

goals: provide faculty tools, guidelines for laptop usage to help the girls use them effectively

be directive ... be directive ... be directive (we suggest that you have control over the laptop usage in yoour classroom; you set the guidelines, not the students)

Some Specific Strategies

tell all students "stop ... hands up" ... then check screens
for individual students, you may wish to take away the laptop as an immediate consequence
when necessary ban individuals bringing laptops for a week
use the fist rule, close lid with room for fist ... when laptops don't need to be used but you don't want the laptops (especially PCs) to sleep
have students turn around laptops altogether (180 degrees so that they face the teacher)
be aware of the F11 trick on Macs which hides or shows all open programs

Click here for the US Laptop Form on our main page

Let us add a paragraph that says:
I understand that the purpose of using a laptop in Chapin Upper School classes is to take notes or do research related to the content of the class. I give my word as a Chapin student that I will not use my laptop during any class for other things such as e-mail, game-playing etc

Last updated 01.15.07

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