Re: Google email for students .....HELP!

S.Osborn

Posted on 11/15/09

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Create a Gmail account for yourself and "link" an address for
your child: One of the ways that the most progressive
elementary teachers that I know are getting around the email
challenge is using the "linking" feature in Gmail. Here's an
article written by an elementary teacher in Australia describing
how that works in her classroom:

http://snipurl.com/linkedgmail

Basically, parents create a Gmail address for themselves----
something like william..ferriter@gmail.com. That would be the
only address that would actually send and receive email.

Then, when your child needed to use an email address to sign up
for services, he/she would use an address that looked like
this: william..ferriter+thomas@gmail.com (where "thomas" is
replaced by the name of your child). Your child doesn't have to
create their own Google account at all. Just by adding
the "+thomas" to the end of your existing address, they'll have
an address that can be used to create accounts with other
services, but all email will come straight to you!

In this scenario, parents could decide whether they wanted to
share their Google Account password with their child or not. If
they didn't, their child would have the email address that they
needed to create accounts with other services without having the
ability to see, send or receive emails.

On 11/07/09, Trish Connors wrote:
> On 11/02/09, Windylynn wrote:
>> Hi all~
>>
>> One of my teachers has decided she wants to have her
>> students email their trucker buddy in lab next week. I
>> remember there was a way to add extra accounts (or
>> something) in google email. I don't remember how to do it,
>> and the to do's on the web are not what I'm looking for.
>> Has anyone done this? I think when the new account is made
>> it will look like "Johnny+teacher@gmail.com" (where
>> teacher@gmail.com is the original account) Can any one help
>> me please? Thanks!
>>
>> Windy
> I have the same problem. I am trying to allow students to use
> google docs but the kids aren't allowed to have their own
> e-mail. Any ideas? Tris

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