Gaggle

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(Click on picture to go to website) Page created by: Christina Burroughs, Alyssa Eleam, Tiffany Mason, and Leanna Strickland

**Overview **
[|Gaggle] was launched in 1999 and was one of the pioneering companies to provide a safe student email solution. It has grown to be a leader in “safe technology” within the K-12 market. Gaggle currently provides safe student communication tools to more than 15,000 schools in 57 countries, while managing over 2 million accounts and storing more than 750 million emails. The online tools include safe student email, shared calendars, homework drop boxes, message boards, blogs, digital lockers, online document editing and collaborative, safe SMS Texting and filtered YouTube access.

**Various ways to use in the classroom **
====1. Communication between all students, teachers, and principal. ==== ====2. Allows students to send homework electronically. ==== ====3. Collaboration with peers. ==== ====4. Encourages a “green “ classroom. ==== ====5. Store previous assignments. ==== ====6. Gaggle Apps: ====
 * ====Message Boards, Email, Parent Accounts, Blogs, Texting ====
 * ====My Gaggle, Digital Lockers, Homework Drop boxes, Chat Rooms, Gaggle Office, Calendar, Gaggle Mobile, Gaggle Safe Ipod Touch ====
 * ====Social Learning Wall, Gaggle Tube (You Tube access for schools) ====
 * ====Top of the Line Security. ====

=4 important aspects of Gaggle: = ====1. **Blogs:** The blogs are very basic, which is great for students who are just beginning to blog. Although they are basic, they are convenient because they are right on the main page with the rest of the students Gaggle apps. ==== ====2. **Email:** for students and teachers: Every student and teacher gets free email, which is filtered for inappropriate material. This makes for easy communication between students and teachers. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. **Digital Locker:** This is a place for students to store files, which are automatically filtered. Through the digital locker, all students have access to a Microsoft-Word-like application called Zoho Documents. This is great because if students do not have Word on their home computers, they still have a way to do and submit their homework assignments (provided they have internet). ==== ====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. **Gaggle Tube:** This is every teacher's dream. Even if the school system has Youtube blocked on the computers, teachers can still access videos because Gaggle filters them for them. ====

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