Thing #17 No More "School as Torture"

I'm interested in how to combine scholarship and emerging forms of publication.   The students address an important issue in one of the videos, "Do you have your own lap top? How are the school's laptops?" Those students that have their own bring them to school, because the school's are slow or may have a virus.  So, the first hurdle is access to technology.  

There is a change in the way we think about using the Internet. Previously, it was just a source of information.  Now it is a place where we an contribute, communication, and collaborate with  Web 2.0 tools, technologies, such as Google docs, social networking sites, blogging and social bookmarking.  

This is a good map of the future (present?) of the classroom:

Question:  I want to put my syllabus, homework assignments, copies of hand-outs on a website for students to access.  But, what's our school's policy?  Would I be discriminating against some students who have limited access to a computer and printer?  They would have to rely on the school library during break, lunch time.  Electronic and paper?  Isn't that defeating/exhausting the purpose/teacher?  

I added to the sandbox and noted my difficulty with sizing the photo of Al appropriately in the comment section.