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Please be sure to read all the fine print for Google, Gmail & Google Apps.
With the recent uproar over at facebook about ownership of content, it
might be interesting to discover that Google owns your content if you use
any of their apps. All your postings are indexed for content. You do know
that Gmail is indexed & data gathered on your personal messages to provide
targeted advertising.
Also, there are several other major questions to consider with any cloud
computing application for an organization (as opposed to an individual):
Account management by administration (including forensics).
Your ability to work if the cloud is unreachable for whatever reason.
Branding - i.e. are your students attending Your School or Google?
among other things.
Gregg Kaloust
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
March 12, 2009 at 9:53 AM -0400 wrote:
>We use GoogleApps for Education right now but have the mail portion turned
>off (we are still using Firstclass). We are trying to decide whether to
>pitch Firstclass for gmail this summer. Seems like a smart move because
>gmail works better with mobile devices. I'm still trying to weigh the
>pros and cons though.
>
>page
>
>Page Lennig
>Technology Director
>Waynflete School
>207-774-7863ext.320
>page_lennig@waynflete.org
>
>
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>A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>>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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