Why Google Apps for Education?
Tech February 21st, 2010Google asked:
www.google.com Jeff and Sam from Google talk about Google Apps Education Edition
Google asked:
www.google.com Jeff and Sam from Google talk about Google Apps Education Edition
February 24th, 2010 at 9:53 am
We just rolled this out to our students and staff this last october. Staff are still using exchange, but using the google piece for collaboration with students. Will be having discussions about switching staff to Google for all e-mail and getting rid of exchange.
We use our Active Directory usernames and passwords by using the easily implimented Moodle SSO plugin. Recently discussed our implimentation at the Minnesota Ties Technology Conference 2009.
February 25th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Our teachers and staff would love to incorporate the cloud computing model. Where we are getting resistance is from the district IT guys.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I think i use google apps standerd and it is pretty good
February 27th, 2010 at 2:59 am
I’m just saying, I would so dream of managing my own electricity plant…. solar cells… wind turbines… inverters on personal gym equipment.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:26 am
I think I am not too worried about big brother Google at this point, maybe I should be; but I take no comfort in the idea that “only a computer” reads my mail, not a human. I am sure a computer program can be taught to violate privacy in a way never even imagined of human readers. i think you’re right, we should be encrypting our emails just like we used to put letters in “envelopes” so only the recipient would see them.
February 28th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I think Interesante.
March 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I think I must admit that keeping your money buried in the backyard most likely is a lot safer than handing it all over to a bank.
March 5th, 2010 at 2:33 am
I think she is NOT OK. Did she take something? :S
March 6th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I think Hahaa… It’s adorable how Sam tries to pull off a “happy casual look”
She’s obviously nervous as hell… But good job Sam! I promise that most people won’t notice it, except of course everyone who read my comment 
Sorry…
March 6th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
and send the letter by dove
March 9th, 2010 at 8:27 am
You must call the 24*7 support that teach the moron school’s admin to set up the system
March 12th, 2010 at 11:01 am
google supports open formats via export functions, so that can’t really happen.
March 13th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Or if google vendor locks you.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:04 am
I think I agree that it’s a nice business model to have Google take care of backups for business. However, I think it’s crucial that all data is directly downloadable in standard-compliant format… to make it possible to still have a backup if something DOES happen to Google.
March 16th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Google Docs is blocked at our school – WTF?!
March 17th, 2010 at 8:08 am
I wish school districts would stop wasting money on slow, vulnerable, unreliable electronic mail protocols and just use g-mail! Seriously.
March 17th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
No person at Google ever reads your emails, part of their software looks for keywords and uses them to make the advertisements on the page relevant to you. If you want to get technical, your computer “reads” your files when it indexes them, some ISPs “read” your web traffic to prioritize or filter certain things.
Bottom line, if you are that worried about privacy then you should go back to writing your letters or start encrypting your emails.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I think I’ve been using Google Apps in my classes for over two years and would recommend it to anyone who teaches.
March 18th, 2010 at 7:35 am
No, the processing for indexing and searching would just have to be implemented client-side; with mail client plug-ins for, e.g., Outlook, and, for the browser, open-source java applets, like Hushmail’s pgp mail client, or even with javascript. Indexing would run in the background, using idle bandwidth while the user is reading, composing, or simply logged in, but doing something else.
March 21st, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I think I’m with Jeff’s Grandfather these days – I reckon my money is much safer in the backyard!
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
i kinda agree
March 24th, 2010 at 10:16 am
THIS ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!!
1)SAY THE NAME OF THE BOY OR GIRL U WANNA BE WITH FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE 2TIMES
2)SAY UR BEST FRIENDS NAME 5 TIMES TO UR SELF
3)THEN POST THIS TO FIVE VIDEOS AND THEN PRESS F8 AND YOU WILL SEE UR CRUSHES NAME ON THE screen
March 24th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
im gong to his backyard
March 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Wow – a discussion online that didn’t turn into a flame war!
Yay!
March 29th, 2010 at 2:10 am
i really like how they try to draw a comparison between his Grandpa bankaccount and our data, thats totally nonsens . . .