[elearning] Google comes to Monash

Fri Oct 16 14:12:25 EST 2009

I have just been playing with Google docs as a way of managing something in my real life.
Sharing documents between committee members of a club.

I am very impressed

Yes it works well on iPhone ..except that neither it nor safari on a Mac can display a Google doc .. we get server errors.
All other documents seem to be fine.
It displays pdf's correctly wear as IE seven doesn't

all in all well worth it as a way of the future

Royce Williams
Manager Information Technology
Billanook College
197-199 Cardigan Rd
Mooroolbark 3138
Victoria Australia
Tel: 61-3-9725 5388; Fax: 61-3-9725 8556

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From: elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ros Meadows
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Hi all... not sure if it has already been mentioned in this thread or not, but Monash is also moving to moodle (and leaving BlackBoard behind). At the moment they have both moodle and Blackboard operating but lecturers are being encouraged to move their courses to moodle, and eventualy BlackBoard will be removed. My son is just finishing his BBIS degree at Clayton and all but one of his lecturers this semester has used moodle rather than BB. His comment? moodle is "pretty cool" and beats BB in every respect! "Especially cos it is free too" He also said the old email they had was very basic and pretty useless and as he is already a gmail user for his personal email he said the move to google mail will be great for students. Strange that we had this conversation last week and then this thread came along...

Cheers
Ros Meadows
roslynmeadows at gmail.com<mailto:roslynmeadows at gmail.com>
0412 614 062
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Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
yes, you get these tools as a Google Administrator

2009/10/16 Robert Ruzbacky <ruzbackyr at aloysius.vic.edu.au<mailto:ruzbackyr at aloysius.vic.edu.au>>
What about student monitoring - ie. does Gmail have a logging and / or
filtering ability? Can you see student's emails if they behave
inappropriately?

Regards,

Robert
St Aloysius College

>
> Similar story for us - does not seem to have any significant impact on
> bandwidth and accounts can easily be disabled if a student behaves
> inappropriately.
>
> Russell
>
>
> --------------------------
> Russell Curr
> Avila College
> Ph: 9831-9645
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>>>> Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> 10/15/2009 11:45 AM >>>
> Cameron .. next year Feb all Vic State schools get 'free' internet. In
> relation to Bandwidth, it hasn't been an problem here and I know from my
> rather slow home connection that the Google Apps overheads are not that
> much of an issue. They seem to have built it nicely for speed.
>
> Say, has anybody use it with a Netbook or handheld such as an iPhone?
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
> 2009/10/15 Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>>
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>
>
> Just wondering how is it impacting on your Internet cost and bandwidth?
>
> How do you monitor abusive/inappropriate communications?
>
> Cheers
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
>
> On 15/10/2009, at 7:48 AM, Russell Curr wrote:
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>
>
>
> We placed our student emails with Google late last year and its been quite
> a successful move. Students like the system, they have about 7 gig of
> storage (far more than we can provide) and some have used the Google docs
> to complete school tasks, finishing off at home what they cant complete at
> school. Account management is simple, setting up groups is easy if a
> little tedious and our student email server is now managed by Google
> somewhere and it does not cost us anything.
>
>
>
> Russell
>
>
> --------------------------
> Russell Curr
> Avila College
> Ph: 9831-9645
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>>>> "Robert Ruzbacky" <ruzbackyr at aloysius.vic.edu.au<mailto:ruzbackyr at aloysius.vic.edu.au>> 10/14/2009 5:03 PM
>>>> >>>
> Interesting reading. Our school was contemplating the same move with
> emails by using Gmail (as well as using the other Google apps available).
> Still in intial discussion stages at the moment.
>
> Google offers some education pricing for this if you want more control in
> setting addresses up with your domain. Not sure about monitoring though as
> sometimes we get requests from co-ordinators to view student emails if
> there is a problem such as bullying, etc.
>
> Robert
> E-Learning Co-ordinator
> St Aloysius College
>
>
>
>> Fascinating tor read this. Note what they are offering Alum! ni. Rumors
>> about
>> that others are moving this way too. Monash where just the first cab off
>> the
>> rank. Of course, NSW was the first state school system to offer this to
>> staff and students.
>>
>> http://www.monash.edu.au/news/newsline/story/1525
>>
>> Australia's largest university is going Google with Monash University
>> set
>>> to offer customised Google Apps for Education to all of its students.
>>> Monash
>>> University Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Byrne said the University's
>>> 58,000 students would be given sign-up details for their opt-in Monash
>>> gmails next month, along with information about how they could use
>>> other
>>> online tools available through Google Applications.
>>>
>>
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>> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au ( http://www.westallsc.vic.%0Aedu.au )
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>> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
>> change
>> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
>>
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