Well, we got a late start the beginning of the 2nd quarter for RMS and directly after mid-term for DHS, but better late than never. Entering the kids names into gaggle.net was not the difficult task. The gaggle people are wonderful and very responsive. The middle school kids have difficulty remembering passwords. It's just not part of their nature yet AND each step must be explained to them one by one.
Right away we had kids using the email for personal reason, so I'm trying to drive home the point that this is a "work" email and should not have any "personal" conversations--yet. That is not to say that in the end, once these kids become somewhat proficient with emailing that I wouldn't mind it. We had middle schoolers logging in over the weekend. Using gaggle made it easy to see what they wrote as the delete folder does not delete until after 30 days or the admin does it.
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One of the hardest parts is getting the instructions to be simple enough for everyone to follow, but also have extension activities for the students who are more technology literate.
Written instructions are not enough... demonstration is definitely essential.
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