On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:13 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> The questions are ...
> 1) Should ByteWorks hand out e-mail addresses with the domain name
> @bworks.org to the kids?
Why not just set them up with a gmail account, and keep the @bworks.org
for volunteers and staff?
> 2) If so, how should we assign e-mail address names?
Right now, it's first initial last name @ domain. If we assign
accounts, staying with that would probably be easiest. If we help them
create their own gmail account, it becomes a non-issue.
> Currently, the kids get dial-up access with an e-mail account from
> the city (CIN). Since they don't get dial-up access until the end of
> the course that also means they don't get an e-mail account until the
> end of the course. That also means we don't teach e-mail until the
> end of the course.
One more thing to cover in class -- to explain clearly the difference
between the ISP's username/password, and their gmail username/password.
> Recently through gmail, BWorks has the ability to create its own e-
> mail addresses with the @bworks.org domain. Since the gmail accounts
> are web-based, this would allow us to teach e-mail to the students
> earlier in the session and allow them to use these accounts from not
> only BWorks but from anywhere they have web access, e.g. the library
> or their school.
I think that's the way to go -- they could set it up in class, then
email one another during the class, thus learning a bit about how email
actually works.
> My opinion:
> Yes, give them gmail accounts on the first day (we can always drop/
> lock accounts for students that didn't go all the way through).
If we just set up gmail, and don't use @bworks.org, then if they drop
out, no problem.
> The
> name will be the same as the city's as this will reduce confusion
> between the city's account and the bworks gmail account.
And yet, the passwords won't be the same, unless we set up the city
account first, and then use that for the gmail account (or set up the
city account and then change the password to be the same as the gmail
password). Thus my comment above about explaining the difference
between a dialup access account and a web-based email account.
Just my two-bits.
t.
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