school email through Gmail for years. All sorts of group calendars. Reader
to track RRS feeds of faculty weblogs. Parents probably use that too.
Our community is using it for the school calendar and scheduling
parent-teacher conferences using a Google Docs spreadhseeet.
The kids in MS seem to like Gmail these days because of all the apps. Not
sure how faculty might be using Google apps.
Deirdre
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Vinnie Vrotny <vvrotny@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith,
>
> We are rolling out Google Applications for Education for our school over
> spring break. Part of this package is email, but it also provides access to
> many other collaborative tools.
>
> We are also working on integrating Google Apps into our Moodle install, so
> that we have single sign on and allow classes to access their Google Docs
> via blocks in Moodle.
>
> Vinnie
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:35 AM, 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."
> >
> > OK, did I just date myself with that one?
> > --
> >
> > keg
> >
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