Students have been using Gaggle as both a resource in our class and I have been posting assignments to www.gaggle.net. Students will be seeing this more as they get older in school so I want to expose them to it now. FBISD is using it more in both middle and high school. It is not just used as an email account, but their is a social wall, class message board, chat, and digital locker for free file storage. The district provided these accounts to students to make it easier for students to communicate with both teacher and peers, collaborate with each other, and work on assignments at home.
Many of you noticed that I took a Social Studies grade on a discussion post that I placed on the Class page. I will always give ample time for students to complete these assignments of at least a couple of days, allowing students to find a computer with internet access. For this particular assignment students had a space of three weeks to complete the assignment and a reminder email was sent out to students through Gaggle. For those students who did not complete this assignment, I am allowing them to go in and reply to these posts for these two discussions (Latin America and the Aztecs)
We have also discussed that Gaggle works best in Internet Explorer 8. You may want to upgrade your browser in order to view this website without problems. If you are having errors on the page while in Gaggle you might want to run the site in Compatability mode or hit F5 to refresh your browser. We have also noticed that this website runs well (actually better) in Google Chrome as a browser. You may download Google Chrome for free.
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