BombBomb

 BombBomb is a innovative site that lets educators send video emails to their students and parents for free.  This is ideal for teachers that are teaching remotely and simple easy to do.  BombBomb is integrated into Gmail/Chrome all a user has to do is either click record or use the video web app.  This makes it easy for educators to "flip" a lesson or record a screencast for students when they can't teach "live".

I highly recommend checking out BombBomb by clicking here!!!

Thanks to award nominated educator Kelly Tenkely of iLearn Technology for the tip.

Tocomail

Tocomail is a site/app I recently covered that is ideal for having kids email in a safe environment.  Not only does this site have a built in filter for catching inappropriate words but it just recently updated their app w/ a bully filter which looks for patterns of bullying and then quarantines them for parents to look at.  This is just another safety feature for parents like controlling the contact list as well as viewing all emails that are quarantined.

I highly recommend checking out Tocomail by clicking here!!!

Tocomail

Tocomail is an excellent site/iOS app for providing a safe email environment for children.  The way this works is a child gets a free email account w/ safe/approved contacts from a guardian.  Kids can then customize an avatar for their email account and even create drawings/paintings for email attachments.  Parents can setup and approve a contact lists, receive quarantined emails waiting for approval, reject or approval any email, etc.  Best of all, there is a content filter which quarantine the email it has any profanity and parents will be alerted if any bullying patterns are detected.

I highly recommend checking out Tocomail by clicking here!!!

Maily

Maily is a wonderful free iPad app for letting kids email in a safe environment.  This is an app designed for elementary school children who want to learn how to email.  Parents don't have to worry as they can view/control everything going on from Maily's online dashboard.  Once a child is setup w/ Maily, they can draw, write, add pictures, to their email and then w/ a push of a button send an email to one of their contacts (setup by their parents).  A person then responds to a child's email through Maily's online interface to keep it safe and simple.

I recommend viewing the demo video below....



I highly recommend checking out Maily by clicking here!!!

Zilladog

Zilladog is a wonderful site that is created by parents for kids. This site provides a safe email environment for children as well as game approved sites too. Plus, there are some nice teacher tools for providing students w/ a safe email environment.

I highly recommend checking out Zilladog by clicking here!!!

Gaggle

At heart, Gaggle is a semi-free filtered email solution for students. Free being in the sense that the unpaid version includes banners/adds and really slows down a network. However, after using the purchased version of Gaggle in our district for the last few months, I can say Gaggle is so much more then just an eMail system.

Gaggle has a variety of components that makes it appealing for education such as: blogging, discussion boards, chatting, digital lockers, and email. Since all of this is "housed" in Gaggle it is all filtered.

Another nice feature is the admin user interface which lets you tweak settings to your hearts desire. You can set it to email yourself for blog comments, blocked messages, etc etc etc. Like any filtering system you can set it to as high/little as you like and include any keywords that might not be in the system.

Finally, one other great selling point is that it works w/ Google Apps. You can have Gaggle "house" a GMail account which is great if you like to par take in the Google universe or Googleverse. For more info on Gaggle/Google interaction click here.

If you are strictly looking for a blogging solution for education which is free, take a look at Edmodo. Edmodo is a microblogging solution for education which is very user friendly; think Twitter for education.