A free email service is available at www.gaggle.net. It was designed to provide safe email for school students with the ability of the teacher to control the student's use of email. I believe that the teacher creates the email accounts for the student. Sharon Elin wrote: > Paul McKenzie wrote: > > I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas? > > > I would like to try this, too, but I have a problem with student access to diigo and to other Web2.0 sites, based purely on the fact that these sites require a validated email account to sign up. My K-12 public school system does not allow student email accounts, and the school filtering system blocks access to personal email accounts such as AOL or GoogleMail or Yahoo Mail. I would need to depend on students to use their home email accounts and to sign up/validate at home, and I don't want to assume that every student has access to email; this would be discriminatory toward students without home email access. Any thoughts about this? Is my school system the only one that has this limitation?
Sharon Elin wrote:
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> > I'm trying to encourage teachers in my school to accept Diigo annotated stickies and Webslides from students as alternatives to black ink on white paper. What better way of seeing how students digest information and create their own voice than writing on the highlighted bibliography? Any ideas?
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> I would like to try this, too, but I have a problem with student access to diigo and to other Web2.0 sites, based purely on the fact that these sites require a validated email account to sign up. My K-12 public school system does not allow student email accounts, and the school filtering system blocks access to personal email accounts such as AOL or GoogleMail or Yahoo Mail. I would need to depend on students to use their home email accounts and to sign up/validate at home, and I don't want to assume that every student has access to email; this would be discriminatory toward students without home email access. Any thoughts about this? Is my school system the only one that has this limitation?