Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer:
Google Apps Education Edition
Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is included free for K-12 schools who sign-up by July 2010.
No hardware to maintain, no software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools.
Watch these webinars to hear directly from school administrators about how
Google Apps has helped them save money and IT resources, plus made students'
lives easier with a set of tools for working together.
Learn about all of the features and benefits of Google Apps Education Edition. In this recorded online seminar, you will:
- Hear why other organizations have made the switch
- Learn how other organizations are using these services
- Watch a demo of Google App
This is the first in a series of longer posts that will discuss some of the common roadblocks I hear about, and help other schools work through, when trying to deploy Google Apps for Education in their schools.
Android app for the Google-Weekly.net Podcast, which highlights new features, current features and an app exploration section. The podcast is geared toward educators.
three major benefits: 1) It saves schools money; 2) It boosts academic
performance and motivation, and; 3) It prepares students for digital
communication in the real world.
replacement of legacy e-mail systems and desktop office application suites, and
these figures include the associated costs of IT support and infrastructure
upgrades
Woo Hoo! At last we can now control page level permissions in Google sites. This could be a game changer for schools who have been using Google Ed Apps.
Forms: Add pages and allow navigation to a specific page within a
form
Forms improvements
They’ve added a new question type (grid), support for right-to-left languages in
forms, and a new color scheme for the forms summary. Also, you can now
pre-populate form fields with URL parameters, and if you use Google Apps, you
can create forms which require sign-in to access