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Confused Canadian · Joined: 21 Jan 2003

Yeah, I may try giving out one address for the group, but if I encounter problems, then I may make everyone sign up individually. Either way, I'm sure I can get work something out. Just glad to be able to figure out a way to save some time, energy, and paper!

Thanks again!

Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

In Korea, most people who need this kind of service to upload and store files start a "cafe" on daum. You should just get your students to set up a "cafe".

They are very easy to use once they are set up. And probably all of your students already have daum ID and passwords.

Confused Canadian · Joined: 21 Jan 2003

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

CC,

I give out the email addresses / sign up, all students. Very easy to do in gmail. just put your class [email protected] The students think they are using their own email address to sign in but really are using the shared one (gmail ignores everything between the + and @

Sue Waters explains it clearly here - she has lots of great tech tips and I'd recommend her twitter. http://theedublogger.com/2008/07/24/creating-student-accounts-using-one-gmail-account/

Also, for strictly file sharing, you might consider mediafire. Set it up with a public address and everyone can access with the same id/pw. www.box.net is the same thing but more secure. But it has only 1Gb free.

www.mail.com is an easy place to create multiple/shared email accounts.

Cheers,

DD
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Confused Canadian · Joined: 21 Jan 2003

DD,

I can see the advantage of using the [email protected] thing for the purpose outlined in the link you gave me, but I'm not so sure it would serve my purpose. If anything, I think it would make the students more likely to change the password, as they would be under the impression it's their own personal account...or am I missing something?

And again, the file sharing links are indeed helpful, but I could do the same thing with Dropbox. As I mentioned before, I'm trying to get around forcing students to make individual accounts, or me having to create +100 accounts for my students each semester.

I think I'll try the class / group e-mail thing, and see how that works. If some joker changes the password, I'll make the students sign up for g-mail individually. Using Google Docs to send me assignments will make it MUCH easier for me to collect assignments from individual classes (can simply download a group of docs into folders on my comp in one click), and will help me avoid downloading individual e-mail attachments.

Thanks for the suggestions though. If I ever decided to set up a student blog project, I'll keep the gmail hack in mind.

emetib · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject:

Is there a possibility of using Google Wave in the future as well? I do like how it facilitates live group interaction on-line amongst other things. It also has "drag and drop" file sharing and whatnot. Is anyone else familiar with it? I myself haven't toyed around with it too much, only because I haven't had much reason to at present.

toonchoon · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Location: Gangnam

thank you for the input. i will start teaching at the English dept in March and will def. try to get this up and going and play around before i start teaching!