TLT CoffeeRead: Largest New Zealand university picks Google Apps

Posted on July 10, 2008 
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Largest New Zealand university picks Google Apps

Is this a trend for universities to adopt Google? Would this be feasible at Penn State?

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3 Responses to “TLT CoffeeRead: Largest New Zealand university picks Google Apps”

  1. dave on July 10th, 2008 9:17 am

    I get the sense that not only is it feasible, it’s a done deal with only particulars to be worked out and the concept marketed properly. Maybe it’s just that it makes so much sense and so many folks are talking about it? What do we do with the IT staff we obviously no longer need? Remember the Chronicle article about the U. Washington lay-offs? I understand completely… and wonder what interest Google could possibly have in tracking the digital lives of 80,000 young, online shoppers?

  2. gary on July 10th, 2008 10:17 am

    Interesting story, Jamie. I had some students use Google Team Edition in the spring for their group projects, though I didn’t get a lot of feedback from them. Seems like there’s some potential there, though, with shared calendaring, chat, and cloud apps.

    Sites is intriguing, in that it could be a way for easy online publishing. There are 500+ people registered for the PSU Team Edition, but this is as close as I could find to a “class” use of Sites: http://sites.google.com/a/psu.edu/angel-how-to-fly/

    Still, interesting to consider. Though it brings up even more questions that Dave mentioned re: where info sits and who has access.

  3. Peter Linehan on July 11th, 2008 1:33 pm

    I use Google apps a lot already. Once I publish a document I can drop into a course section in ANGEL. It’s easier and more flexible than using the ANGEL editor. I use one Google calendar for all my courses instead of individual ANGEL calendars for each course.

    The Google apps don’t have all the tools of Office yet, but they cover the essential ones nicely.

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