ELEM: managing visitors and the internet

[Joanne Revis <jrpageturner@YAHOO.COM>]

We have a number of local college students who serve
as mentors for our students.  Sometimes they come to
the media center with their kids and ask to use the
internet computers.  We have no written policy at all
so far for internet use - it's mostly been just me
asking nosy questions, like what site do you want to
visit and do you know how to get there?

When students ask about it, I tell them I have to be
with them while they're on the internet.  We're an
inner-city school and not many kids have ever even
seen an internet site, so it's new to them as well as
to our teachers, who are mostly techno-phobic.

These college students are good kids and I'm sure they
just want to help our kids experience the 'net, but
I'm uncomfortable letting them just have at it without
at least some hovering from me.

Am I off base here, or does anyone have a written
policy already that would help me with this?  I don't
really know how to deal with this without some
guidance, and I'm not getting it from my
administrators.

Joanne Revis, media specialist
Westside Elementary School
Daytona Beach, Florida
jrpageturner@yahoo.com

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