I didn't intend for this to be it's own post, but as I was writing my post about using a program called Piazza in the classroom, I realized how important this was on it's own if you didn't already know how to use it. Using technology in the classroom is awesome, but many times we come to the realization that for every single student account we need to have an email for them. In high school and maybe even middle school for some of you out there, this isn't a problem; but many of my elementary kids don't have email. Even if they do have email, maybe you don't want them to be using it in school. Who knows what is on there!
An easy way to have different email accounts for each student is to use your ONE gmail account.
For instance, my gmail is misshayden26@gmail.com. When I wanted to get all ten of my students Haiku Deck accounts, I used my gmail to set it up.
By giving each student the email of misshayden26+InsertIdentifier@gmail.com, they all have their "own" email address, but all correspondence goes to my one account. You don't have to do anything online for this to work, simply tell your students their assigned email address. Gmail does not recognize anything after the "+". For my students this summer, I simply used "Student1" and changed the number for each student. For the students I work with all year, I will use their names as identifiers.
When the email comes to your inbox, you can see who it is for:
You can see that the email is to "misshayden26+David@gmail.com", but it and all of the other emails are still sent to the single email account.
This is just a very simple tip that can help a lot in your classroom. When I found out about it a few years ago, my mind was blown!
Is there a simple tip that made a big difference in your classroom?
Hope everyone is have a good end to their summer! I know that Chloe and I are so excited to finally get to sleep in this weekend. She is doing a bit of napping to make up for her early morning as we speak.
Happy teaching!
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