>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.
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Tom Phelan
Director of Technology
Peddie School
tphelan@peddie.org
Office: 609.944.7625
Fax: 609.944.7913
http://www.peddie.org
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