Private-owned high school Ngoi Sao (translated as Star) was probably the first non-international school in Ho Chi Minh City to provide edu email to their students. Read the story here
First, since the capacity is 7Gb, I have reason to believe that the school’s IT utilizes Gmail service.
Second, providing students with the school email address makes it more professional for communication than a personal mailbox on a free service. The students can use their school email to apply for part-time or free-lance job.
Third, I wonder if there is any difference between email addresses of students and email addresses of the school’s staff?
Last but not least, maybe these students can use their edu email as credentials to join a network on Facebook, instead of the current introduction mechanism.
How to join a network on Facebook
1. Location-based network has no restriction
2. For organization-based network, members must have an email address belonging to their company / organization where they find the verification link from Facebook
3. High schools also have their networks, but since many high school don’t provide school email, joining process is done on introduction basis. Person A requests network N to which s/he belongs. When person B who is a member of that network in real life want to join N, B has to add A as a friend and asks A to confirm that B is actually in N before Facebook adds B to N. Then C shall have to add either A or B and ask for confirmation. This process goes on for subsequent members…
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Tags of this article: edu,email,facebook,gmail,google,ngoisao,service,vietnam,vietnamese.
Last update October 3, 2008
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