Dave
MICDS Director of Technology
314-995-7478
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>We implemented it this summer and migrated all our student email over at
>the
>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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