using just Docs right now, and have turned off Gmail and chat until we are
comfortable letting our kids have additional tools. So far, the kids and
teachers have caught on to use the collaborative features of Docs and it
seems to help with peer editing their written work.
That said, our IT people are looking for a solution that works better for us
than First Class and they are pushing Zimbra. I don't know much about
Zimbra, but I'd love feedback if anyone else is familiar with it.
Last week, I presented at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning
conference for Google as I'm writing a search curriculum for them, and I
spent some time chatting with the Google Apps people as well. They are
offering their email security tool, Postini, for free with anyone who signs
up for Google Apps for Education for the length of their contract, which is
usually four or five years. I believe this offer is good until June, but I
don't know many details on this. You can probably find more info here:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html.
Secondly, I started a form and spreadsheet so that educators can find other
people who are using Google Apps... feel free to add your school here:
http://tinyurl.com/67vtuc or use these spreadsheet to locate a school to
contact about their use of Google Apps: http://tinyurl.com/5f8kkp.
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Lucy Gray
University of Chicago Charter Schools
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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