As teachers and students incorporate Internet tools and new technologies into daily classroom activities more frequently, it is important to keep kids safe online. There are many great resources available to classroom teachers online such as Prezi, or Glogsters.
Taking advantage of these tools, however, often requires the use of an active email address. Children generally do not have a personal email as you need to be a certain age to register or have a parent sign them up. How many times have you encountered this roadblock?
An easy way to incorporate 21st Century Skills into your lessons without compromising security would be to create a class email account. For instance mine is vanhoutentech@yahoo.com. Prior to the activity, accounts for online tools are created using my class email which students do not have access to. Students only have access to a general login and password for the Prezi account, for example.
Just wanted to take a moment to share a very important tip. Should you have any questions in regards to creating a class email or class Prezi/Glogster/etc accounts feel free to send me a message.
