start of the school year (1300 email accounts). Our faculty/staff have
Google Apps accounts, but their email is still on our internal Exchange
server. We're migrating those accounts over starting in January and hope to
be completely done with Exchange by March. (We didn't go whole hog because
when we made the decision to start this, there was no formal Outlook support
nor was their good support for Windows Mobile. Both have been implemented
since then so we are comfortable completing the migration now.)
We haven't done much formal training for anyone yet. Rather, we've just had
a few of the early adopters spend some time with their departments showing
off what they've been able to do. No one has been particularly resistant,
and we've had a number of people start to do some fun projects with their
students (everything from ePortfolios to collaborative commentary on poems
for an English class and everything in between). The administrative team at
the school is using it extensively to collaborate on spreadsheets,
presentations, and word processing documents.
My current Exchange admin is pushing me very, very hard to get everyone over
to Google so that she can shut down Exchange. We shutdown our Barracuda
recently since we get the free Postini Message Security filtering. We also
added the 1-year Postini archiving service which has already made itself
very, very useful.
Christopher
Christopher Butler
Director of Information Services
St. John's Preparatory School
http://www.stjohnsprep.org
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:08 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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