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  Posted by Marci Sun Aug 3, 2008 5:11pm PDT

  This is so timely and insightful. Thank you. I think parents were so sickened by MySpace that ALL forms of using the internet to communicate or collaborate with others, kid-to-kid or parent-to-parent, etc. was starting to be avoided. This couldn't be further from the truth. For example our school used Jooners (www.jooners.com) last year to organize big all-school events like the Pancake Breakfast and Book Fair. Also many room parents were blown away by how easy it made getting parents to participate in classroom and school events. You just make a list of what's needed and email to the parents. Then they see an online sign-up sheet and see who's already signed up for what. It's so brilliant. It used to be that I'd have to reply to half the emails and tell that Suzy had already volunteered to bring the fruit, so could they please consider bringing the cookies, and so on and so on and so on. AHHHH! Anyway. As you can see I'm sold on Jooners and also like how Blackboard allows my kids to "Self-service" study notes, assignments and due dates from their teachers.

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• Posted by Marci Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:51pm PDT

  Yeah, my school does that too. But people found a website that lets them go on MySpace anyway, but I'm lucky my school lets me go on goSupermodel because then I wouldn't use the Internet and that would suck.

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  Posted by mistymaymay@ymail.com Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:07am PDT

  Schools are often the last to adopt technology! Our school recently decided to use http://www.qlubb.com as the resource for room parents. It's been pretty good so far - easy and basic. But honestly I don't want to spend all my time on a social network with other parents, unless they are my friends and then we are already on Facebook.

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