We implemented Google Apps for Ed about a year ago, branding it to use as
our internal portal at Sanford School (JK-12). We migrated our email from
Exchange successfully with few problems. Staff and faculty while initially
reluctant, have embraced it. We do collaborative sharing of documents and
spread sheets both with students in the classroom and for the administrativ=
e
team.
At opening meetings this year, we did in-house professional development
sessions offering support and training on Google Apps, along with our new
student information system (SIS). We use branded Google Sites, linking out
from our SIS, because the teachers find it so user friendly and easy to use=
.
In the past, we used Blackboard but this combination seems to be working
well for us.
We debated the ownership issues every school needs to consider when making
such a switch but it=92s hard to ignore the cost savings. It also offered
immediate options such as new calendaring features and the ability to push
out to mobile devices that my small staff could never hope to develop or
maintain. We did upgrade our bandwidth but are still using less than many
local area schools and doing well providing reliable services for an
affordable cost.
It was a good move for us, allowing my staff more time to focus on support
for classroom faculty, administrative users, and other in-house IT
functions.
Suzy
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Suzy Hoffmann
Director of Technology
Sanford School
6900 Lancaster Pike
Hockessin, DE 19707
302-239-5263 x319
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Vinnie Vrotny <vvrotny@gmail.com> wrote:
> We implemented Google Apps for Education last spring for faculty and this
> fall for all of our students, grades 6 - 12. We are very pleased and are
> using many aspects of the software.
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Russell <crussell@maimonides.org
> >wrote:
>
> > Has anyone switched to using Google apps for education in their
> > environment? Has it been successful?
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Chris Russell
> > Director of Technology
> > Maimonides School
> > 617-232-4452x426
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