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Earlier today Edublogs announced that students can now blog on Edublogs even if they don't have email addresses. Students can create a blog or become authors on other blogs without having to submit an email address to Edublogs. To get started students will simply need to choose a user name and password before writing their first blog posts. If they desire, students can submit email addresses later (which is useful for password recovery).
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Removing the requirement of submitting an email address should simplify the process of getting a classroom full of students blogging. By not making students go through the process of submitting and confirming an email address, Edublogs is giving students and teachers more time to focus on the work of creating blog posts. The removal of the email requirement also makes it possible for students who don't have email addresses to write their own blog posts.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
How Students Can Blog Without An Email Address
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I've been using Blogger for a summer PD with our staff and thought I'd try Edublogger with students this school year, liking the no email option. I was disappointed that the free version has an add running across the top of the blog so I will probably return to what I know and use Blogger with my students.
OR if you want to get a free email address for your students -- without ads, and with safety features built in -- you can sign up your class for ePals SchoolMail.
http://www.epals.com/join/email_capture
ePals is not a mass market email system like Gmail or Yahoomail. It is designed specifically for use in K12 education, with features that teachers asked for. In 1999 a teacher asked for automatic language translation, and in 2000 ePals SchoolMail was the first email system in the world to have this provided. Now there is translation to 58 languages.
ePals has TRUSTe certification, which is why large school districts and states (including Maine) have implemented SchoolMail.
For Maine students and teachers, there is a special subdomain: @maine.epals.com. That makes it easy to identify others from Maine.
I'm doing a webinar on this on Tuesday, Aug. 31 at 1 p.m. EST if you are interested. - Rita Oates
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