Comments on: Collaboration Idea No. 1: Creating a Classroom Global Communications Center

By: Langwitches » Work-Around for E-mail Addresses for Elementary School Students

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:33:28 +0000

[...] Kim Cofino in Bangkok is also running into these problem as she is trying to set her students up with Yack Pack accounts. [...]

By: Alan November » Collaboration Idea No. 1: Creating a Classroom Global Communications…

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:43:48 +0000

[...] Celebrity Mound wrote an interesting post today on Collaboration Idea No. 1: Creating a Classroom Global Communications…Here’s a quick excerpt…big idea I’d like to tackle is the concept of creating a “global communications center” in your classroom as described by Alan November. [...]

By: always learning » Sign Me Up! The Elementary Email Solution: Linked Gmail Accounts

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:59:19 +0000

[...] e-mail address for log in purposes – no mailenator for us), and in preparation for all of our Global Communication Center projects, I spent less than an hour today solving my problem, thanks to [...]

By: always learning » A Sad Goodbye to YackPack

always learning » A Sad Goodbye to YackPack — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:00:27 +0000

[...] than YackPack (and therefore might not be appropriate for lower elementary – goodbye Global Communication Center idea), and offers “channels” instead of Packs, but it might work. Plus, you can even RSS the [...]

By: David James

David James — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:11:44 +0000

Kim,
I have used the gmail trick before with elementary students. It was real easy to use. Gmail is blocked at school, but google desktop is not. Once I got everyone setup, I opened my gmail through google desktop. By the way, I hope you are enjoying your new assignment and would love to collaborate again this year.

By: Nancy vonWahlde

Nancy vonWahlde — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:29:34 +0000

Hi Kim!
I have a group of about 17 second and fourth grade students in an after-school web2.0 publication group. We would like to participate, but I’m not sure how that would work.
I am a school tech integrator at the American School of Madrid and mainly working with the K-5 students. I will try to find a class willing to participate as well.
I’m looking forward to participating in some way,
Cheers, Nancy

By: Stefani Hite

Stefani Hite — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:37:53 +0000

Have you checked epals? We are considering it for our younger students.

By: Paul Harrington

Paul Harrington — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:11:55 +0000

Hi Kim,
I am definitely looking forward to being involved in this project – YackPack is difficult for us as we don’t have multiple e-mail accounts. I would prefer to keep contact within my moderation range (ie not using pupils home e-mails) Think.com may be a possible or a specific Ning Community. I also think we should use the power of Skype and FlashMeeting for contacts.
Paul

By: Kevin Jarrett

Kevin Jarrett — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:51:25 +0000

Hey Kim, great skyping with you last night, getting excited about bringing some of our teachers in, we’ll be in touch! -kj-

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:02:07 +0000

I am ready to go Kim. Let’s get our grade 2 classes started and pull others on board once we are set up. I see that we can mass import users to create free gaggle.net accounts. Since the accounts won’t be our primary means of communication the ads don’t really bother me. Otherwise we can use epal accounts which are also free without the ads…I contacted them to find out about mass import. Have you been in touch with your friends at YackPack about mass import? I don’t want to do any manual account set up if we can avoid it.