Comments on: What’s in a domain name? http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/ Educational Technology Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Schinker http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-26689 John Schinker Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:54:15 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-26689 There is the option of sharing outside the domain. I know in the calendar, for example, there are options to "keep private", "share with everyone in my organization," and "share with everyone." If there's a similar thing in Docs, they could collaborate within the group, and make it read-only to the rest of the world (which would include the teacher). Or, they could just specifically add the teacher by email address. There is the option of sharing outside the domain. I know in the calendar, for example, there are options to “keep private”, “share with everyone in my organization,” and “share with everyone.” If there’s a similar thing in Docs, they could collaborate within the group, and make it read-only to the rest of the world (which would include the teacher). Or, they could just specifically add the teacher by email address.

]]> By: Ryan M http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-26688 Ryan M Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:55:39 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-26688 Thank you, thank you, thank you. As one of the 7th grade teachers in your district, the shorter domain means less words for the students to spell incorrectly in URLs, email addresses, logins (Study Island, etc.). I finally have most of them bookmarking and using "autofill" functions, but still, when they're at home or the library, I know that spelling out the "long" domain always requires more "work." The shortened links on your "Of Bits and Bytes" are helpful too. Thanks for the easy fix! Please let us/me know when email addresses are "shortened"! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

As one of the 7th grade teachers in your district, the shorter domain means less words for the students to spell incorrectly in URLs, email addresses, logins (Study Island, etc.). I finally have most of them bookmarking and using “autofill” functions, but still, when they’re at home or the library, I know that spelling out the “long” domain always requires more “work.” The shortened links on your “Of Bits and Bytes” are helpful too. Thanks for the easy fix!

Please let us/me know when email addresses are “shortened”!

]]> By: Mr.Rcollins http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-26687 Mr.Rcollins Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:04:02 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-26687 @JohnR Our emails work with both of our domains for teachers, so they can use @kenton.k12.oh.us for those sites that do require an education email address. I haven't set it up for the students, but it hasn't been a concern. @JohnS I've thought about that route too, the big problem is for students sharing work with staff. You'd have to set the staff up on both domains in Google Apps, which could become very tedious for them to switch between them (and I doubt they'll want to run two different Firefox profiles or two different browsers so they can stay logged in to both domains. :-) I was quite surprised when I found that kcs.me wasn't registered! @JohnR Our emails work with both of our domains for teachers, so they can use @kenton.k12.oh.us for those sites that do require an education email address. I haven’t set it up for the students, but it hasn’t been a concern.

@JohnS I’ve thought about that route too, the big problem is for students sharing work with staff. You’d have to set the staff up on both domains in Google Apps, which could become very tedious for them to switch between them (and I doubt they’ll want to run two different Firefox profiles or two different browsers so they can stay logged in to both domains. :-) I was quite surprised when I found that kcs.me wasn’t registered!

]]> By: John Schinker http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-26686 John Schinker Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:11:14 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-26686 I've been toying with the idea of adding another domain for our school district, too. We currently give Google Apps for Education accounts to staff members, but there's some interest in rolling it out to students, too. Because there are some things that staff members want to share with everyone in the organization (but not necessarily students), it might make sense to have two different Google Apps configurations. Plus, that would enable me to put student email in gmail and keep staff email in-house. But coming up with another domain name that's short enough and that won't cause confusion is quite a challenge. I’ve been toying with the idea of adding another domain for our school district, too. We currently give Google Apps for Education accounts to staff members, but there’s some interest in rolling it out to students, too. Because there are some things that staff members want to share with everyone in the organization (but not necessarily students), it might make sense to have two different Google Apps configurations. Plus, that would enable me to put student email in gmail and keep staff email in-house. But coming up with another domain name that’s short enough and that won’t cause confusion is quite a challenge.

]]> By: John Rappold http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-26685 John Rappold Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:42:01 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-26685 When Ohio made the ITCs chnge from the .gov domain to .org we ended up with scoca-k12.org. As you can imagine, the -k12 has caused problems. Sometimes I can't register my email address becuase an app is checking for .k12 and thinks I've made a mistake. We do have scoca.org but we've been told that for mail and web services we have to use the full domain. Josh and I have setup scoca.mobi - it will mostly be used for the mobile version of our intranet When Ohio made the ITCs chnge from the .gov domain to .org we ended up with scoca-k12.org. As you can imagine, the -k12 has caused problems. Sometimes I can’t register my email address becuase an app is checking for .k12 and thinks I’ve made a mistake. We do have scoca.org but we’ve been told that for mail and web services we have to use the full domain.

Josh and I have setup scoca.mobi – it will mostly be used for the mobile version of our intranet

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