MAHOPACMIDDLE SCHOOL

425 Baldwin Place Road

Mahopac, NY 10541

(845) 621-1330

FAX: (845) 628-5847

mahopac.k12.ny.us

Dr. Robert J. Reidy, Jr.Ira Gurkin

Superintendent Principal

Anna O’ConnorHelen HorvitzConstance Taibi-Lewis

Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Special Education AdministratorI.A.

Dear Parents,

MahopacMiddle School is pleased to announce an exciting, new initiative to allow the transfer of students’ electronic documents from school to home, and from home to school: Google Docs.

Google Docs (documents) is an online solution that allows students to create, edit, save, and print totally from their own private desktops at home or from any networked computer at school. They can create documents, slide shows, presentationsand spreadsheets, all from Google Documents.Storing all documents on Google willeliminate the enormous problem of transferring them from one form of media to another.

With Google Docs, students can share their work with other students working on group projects and work simultaneously on the same document without being at the same location. This eliminates driving your child to another student's house to work on projects. Teachers will have the ability to monitor student work and provide feedback when appropriate. Parents, from home or the office, will be able to view their child's work as well.

To allow your child to participate, you simply need access to an e-mail account to sign up for Google Docs. Your account will then have to be verified by clicking on a link in an email sent to you from Google. We are asking parents to provide their child with an email account to be used for the Google Docs. If you do not have one, Google provides free addresses. We will then sign up students from our lab classes.
AllGoogle Docs accounts are secure and require a user name and password. Please record this user name and password in a safe place for future reference. Only the student who owns the account can view documents unless he/she decides to share it with others.

Please consider, therefore, providing us with an email account and the rest will be completed in school by our technology personnel. Please contact Stu Perry, technology support teacher, if you have any questions regarding Google Docs.

(Please tear off and have your child return to his/her teacher.)

I give my child ______permission to open a Google Docs account

using the following e-mail account (please print): ______

Parent/Guardian Signature______