At this point I still need to do some more investigating before I decide which option is best for getting student work off our iPads. I am already using the free version of Kidblog with students, and have been very happy with it for posting and replying. I find it easy to use and the students are enthusiastic about it. I have already used the iPads with some of my students and our Kidblog classes. I'm not sure about attaching student work created elsewhere to the blog posts. I was noticing on the Kidblog site that you have to upgrade to a paid account to be able to connect Kidblog to GoogleDocs or Evernote. Is it going to be necessary for individual campuses to purchase these accounts?
In the past, I have applied for eChalk accounts and used them with students, but found them to be not very elementary friendly and not simple for the students to use. I know we have made several changes to the eChalk accounts since then, so perhaps I will try them again. We will need to decide which students to request accounts for, and wait until the school year starts to get those going. Last time I remember it took several weeks to get the accounts set up.
I signed up for an Edmodo account, but haven't started using this yet. My own children go to school in HISD and have used Edmodo for several years, so I think I would be interested in trying it out. The site told me that I need to get a particular code to link my account to the Alief one.
I think that you will find that Edmodo is very easy to use and is very simple to use with the Elementary students. We do have a site license so there is a code that will let you join under the "Alief" umbrella. We are offering training classes all summer if you are interested.
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