have suggestions for the best way to transition?
-Liz
Liz Davis
Director of Academic Technology
Belmont Hill School
Belmont, MA
davis@belmont-hill.org
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Tom Phelan <tphelan@peddie.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:35:05 -0400, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi. I've been suggesting to my students that although they each have
> school
> >email accounts through OWA, they should get Gmail accounts because in so
> >many ways they're easier to use and more reliable. An example of this was
> an
> >Internet quiz during which a number of students got hosed when their
> >school-supplied OWA accounts froze up on them and they lost their work. At
> >least those with Gmail accounts would've had anything done within the last
> >five or so minutes automatically saved.
> >
> >Anyway, our tech director wants to know of any schools out there that are
> >using Gmail "officially" so that he can visit them. It's time for a
> >"Mouseketeer Roll Call."
>
> We switched to Google Apps for Education in September 08 after about 2
> years
> of testing and a significant pilot program in 07-08. We also use Postini
> for
> anti-spam and email archiving. Our main focus has been on email and
> calendar
> although we've enabled the whole Google Apps suite. Overall the switch has
> been very successful. Google has made steady improvements to the suite with
> the most recent one of adding offline ability for both email and calendar.
>
> If you have specific questions/concerns please post them.
>
> --
> Tom Phelan
> Director of Technology
> Peddie School
> tphelan@peddie.org
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