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I've spoken to a friend at a school where I used to teach that uses Google apps for education. I am really interested in pursuing this option as I think it affords the greatest resources. But I do think that the student email content…"
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need email, etc for small junior high in K-8
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Carl Lidstone replied to Betsy Norris's discussion need email, etc for small junior high in K-8"I have just starting using drop.io for sharing files, seems like a good site so far. Students either email (no good if you don't have email :) or use a weblink. Give it try, it may help"
"You should check out Gaggle again - they have a lot of new features that allow for storage, blogs, and other goodies. It's also possible to integrate Gaggle and Google apps to gain the best features of both."
Matt Perreault replied to Betsy Norris's discussion need email, etc for small junior high in K-8"I'm a Google Apps for Education admin. Can you clarify your question?"
Betsy Norris replied to Betsy Norris's discussion need email, etc for small junior high in K-8"Was looking at Google apps for education last night. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there's any admin access to email, just a logging feature if you sign up for it."
Betsy Norris replied to Betsy Norris's discussion need email, etc for small junior high in K-8"From what I've read, my kids are too young to use ning. :("
Ben Stafford replied to Betsy Norris's discussion need email, etc for small junior high in K-8"I'm not sure if you meant this or not but Google Apps for Education would allow for email and shared document for turning in assignments.
I've gotten back into Moodle. No email but it's free and many options. I like edmodo ok but…"
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- At 1:51am on December 27, 2008,
Evan Morikawa said… - Hello,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Evan Morikawa. I am a 20 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school" on Classroom2.0, and since our project is specific to middle schools and uses new learning technology, I thought you might be interested. Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.
Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.
Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!
Thanks,
Evan Morikawa
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