Google and JotSpot
Stewart Mader of Wiki in Education talks with Joe Kraus of JotSpot about their acquisition by Google. Google is becoming the main supplier of software for my students and staff…(Google Earth, SketchUp, Google Docs, Gmail…) This may or may not be a problem in the future, but for now I am getting great tools for my students and teachers with great support, for basically nothing. What I would like to see is some way for me to set up accounts for students on Google Docs without having students register with an email address. I can work around this a bit by using Google hosted GMail, but still it would be nice if they created an education version that allowed a teacher to create and edit accounts. Also it would be nice if a feature set was created that focused on educational uses.
October 31st, 2006 23:16
[...] Tim writes: What I would like to see is some way for me to set up accounts for students on Google Docs without having students register with an email address. I can work around this a bit by using Google hosted GMail, but still it would be nice if they created an education version that allowed a teacher to create and edit accounts. Also it would be nice if a feature set was created that focused on educational uses. [...]
November 2nd, 2006 06:59
Have you seen this? https://www.google.com/a/edu/
November 2nd, 2006 07:07
HI Andy,
Yes. We have the lewiselementary.org domain registered with the program and use Gmail to handle some of our school mail and plan to add more staff to the service….
Thanks,
Tim
November 2nd, 2006 13:49
Tim,
I agree–We have classes that are starting to use these tools and teachers are excited about it, but from a human factor, having students sign in with email is a difficulty.
Our students have email, but we’ve had problems with them making typos when they type in their school email, etc.
I love the Google tools, though!