[Dcmosls] Mango Languages

[Charles O'Bryan]

Good morning,

My how time flies when....  We have been working on access issues with Mango Languages (an online language acquisition program) for several months,  and here is the scoop.  Please provide the following information if you are interested in a Mango languages trial.  You will need to provide the first and last name of students and staff needing access.  If an entire district needs access, so be it.  The Mango IT guys want the names so that a custom ID and password can be sent out.  Each lesson on Mango is progressive and personal to some extent.  It is a bit unwieldy to get names, but that is what is required.  The list can just be that: a list of names.  It does not need to be in spreadsheet form.

I will be the interface between Mango and you to make things easy.  Just send me a word document with your district or school name in the header, your name and then the first and last name of students .  As soon as these get to me I will have the IT folks at Mango assign access.  Please advise users that there will be a pre-survey, mid-April use and end of May survey to gain information about student and staff perceptions of the product.  Each survey should take no more than (3) minutes.  The hope is that the online program can be tailored to support the language classes in general and the NYS language Regents Exams in particular.  Access should be available through the end of June, 2010.

Charles O'Bryan
School Library System, Coordinator
DCMO BOCES
6678 County Road 32
Norwich, NY  13815

Tel: 607.335.1371
Fax: 607.336.6518