I just went through and set up one of my classes. It was a long process though! I can help with some of your questions but I have my own too.
Here is how I got around signing the kids up without an email address There is a "hack" with gmail where you can use your own email address as an adress for multiple people. for instance my email: readingwritingliter...@gmail.com if i wanted to make a email for a student, i could do readingwritingliteracy+stud...@gmail.com adding the + and any name/code etc. will use your email as the main email but it's "different" so everyone would have their own log on. with shelfari you can also change their username to something else and that can be used as a login instead of the email. my concern, after doing all this, was when i noticed you can private message and send emails. i wish there was some way to have some sort of "teacher" controls. i would like to be able to monitor that because i don't quite trust 7th graders. anyone have any experience with this? I'm going to talk to my principal and be sure to send info home to the parents. I just wish there was a way to monitor them. i'm almost thinking of doing away with the individual logins and just have a class site. any thoughts? On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Domina.Natasha < domina.nata...@north-haven.k12.ct.us> wrote: > I read the several suggestions about Shelfari.com and am excited about the > idea. I also know that Goodreads.com is similar. I wonder if anyone has > compared them to be able to recommend one over the other. I'm also > wondering if people who have used them could share their experience with > whether I would need to worry about inappropriate material. My last > question (for now) is how you would handle setting up accounts for kids who > don't have their own e-mail. Do you have them set up e-mails in school? > > I love the idea of kids entering in books they've read and writing reviews > about them--it seems like such a meaningful activity to do at the end of > reading a book. > > Thanks! > Natasha > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
