After watching this vdeo and reading http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-1/chapter-3/4-1 I realized that managing these groups prior to the school year starting will be an important task to put on the administrators' lists. Groups will be used widely throughout our district and I am sure it will be used by you.

If you don't have mail turned on for your school Google Apps accounts, you can still save and manage contact information using the 'standalone' Contact Manager. 'Standalone' simply means that you do not need to use Apps mail or any other product to get to your contacts - they can now be accessed directly. This might be a handy way to save old contacts instead of importing all. As the WCSU team transitions form one email address to another....this may be a good solution to keeping old and at the same time starting fresh with new ones to the district. Anyone have experience using this feature?

For those of us who are trying to "sell" change (more specifically Google Apps)to our administrators and staff -this is a good overview of how it can be used for education.