Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Google Sites

Today our group is working on setting up a classroom website using Google Sites. I am on information overload mode. I created a blog for one of my classes (I want a place where they can display their work to a larger audience than just the teacher. I'm hoping the students will begin to take a little more pride in their work knowing that a large audience is able to view.) However, then the questions popped up on how do I get around the students not having email. So after brainstorming with my group, gaggle.net email platform was suggested. Therefore, I am heading to this site to read about the controls that I can place on my students that will hopefully apease my administrator. I'm finding impossible to use these cool tools without email accounts.
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  1. UnknownSeptember 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    Check it out: www.gaggle.net may be an avenue to use for student email accounts.

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  2. Mike AgostinelliSeptember 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    www.gaggle.net can be great if your district has decent bandwidth. Another option is working with your existing gmail account. My students sign up for accounts using mrateacher+(students name)@gmail.com I receive an email to confirm in my Mr. A teacher account and the student always logs in to the site as mrateacher+ryan@mrateacher.com (for example) This solves the problem of students getting permission to use email as they don't really have an account and it gets them logged into the site. An added benefit is that everything the student does through the Web 2.0 site is tracked in your gmail. If you are going to try this method, make sure you set up a gmail account that is just used for this purpose.

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  3. StoltzySeptember 22, 2009 at 1:14 PM

    I'm on it - I so agree with needing email for my students. Thanks for the tip Mike.

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  4. UnknownSeptember 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    Thanks, Mike. A weight was lifted:)

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  5. UnknownSeptember 22, 2009 at 3:52 PM

    Goggle Sites:
    Mike:
    Have you ever had students abuse the account at home?
    Becky:
    I would like to learn more about this gaggle.net so I hope I can get together with you. Most of my class does not have Internet at home so this shouldn't be a problem.

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  6. UnknownSeptember 22, 2009 at 9:14 PM

    Hey, Mike, when setting up a teacher account, do I need to click or have my students click a certain button to make sure the emails are coming to my teacher account? Also, do I have the students use the teacher email as the other email contact or can they leave that blank? Do you record each student's password?

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  7. ESSeptember 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM

    Gaggle sounds very interesting. I'll have to check it out.

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