I've been involved in a number of on- and off-line discussions about this
topic, including at least one you can probably find in the ISED-L
archives. While a switch to Gmail, MSLive, etc. is certainly tempting for
a number of reasons, the main concern I've heard expressed again and again
is that many schools are reluctant to give up the ability to control
(quotas, groups, access time, send/receive privs, etc.) and archive
e-mail.
As far as Packer is concerned, we are, overall, content with FirstClass,
so we won't be going down that path anytime soon, but we will probably
make some of the other Google Apps available here in the near future.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Bill
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Bill Knauer
Director of Technology
Packer Collegiate Institute
170 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.250.0273
bknauer@packer.edu
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Friends,
>
>There is an interesting article in "The Chronicle of Higher Education",
>Jan. 11, 2008, headlined "Colleges Get Out of E-Mail Business" (sorry
>it's not a free link). It says more than 1000 colleges have signed up
>with either Google Apps Education Edition or Microsoft Live@edu and
>turned over their entire email operations to these companies for free.
>In many cases, this was prompted by student requests who saw these
>services as more convenient, more spacious (5 gigabytes of server space
>per person), and did I mention FREE? Colleges that use these services
>may continue to use their institutional names including the ".edu."
>Online calendars and collaborative work spaces allow students to
>collaborate and coordinate.
>
>Have any of you considered doing or already done this?
>
>Patt Moser, Director of Information Services and Upper School Head
>Librarian
>Sidwell Friends School
>3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW
>Washington D.C. 20016
>Tel: 202-537-8164
>Mobile: 202-595-4941
>Fax: 202-537-8174
>Email: moserp@sidwell.edu
>Web: http://www.sidwell.edu/upper_school/library.asp
>
>
>
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