Learning as a Way of Teaching

In collaboration with one of our 7th grade science teachers, we were able to create The Great Space Race.  Students are building some great sites with great zeal and determination.  Googlepages has made it real easy for our novice web designers to make a good looking site with minimal effort or training.

The trick was getting Google accounts for our students.  After I went through the hassle of creating accounts for them, I discovered that many of our students had e-mail accounts that they could have used for the project.  We were not using e-mail, they just needed them for login purposes.  I consider it a lesson learned that perhaps I should get students to get an e-mail account before allowing them to participate in the project.  Hmm…

Kim discovered the power of subsidiary accounts with Gmail.  This trick did not work for our project because the alias e-mail would not work in order for them to sign up for a Google account.  However, I managed to get all the accounts created.

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