[elearning] Google comes to Monash

Mon Oct 19 11:55:05 EST 2009

Nice feature, try sharing the folder to a google mailing instead of the docs
to each person. Very cool .. I also discoved today the preview lab feature
in gmail that lets me peek at a doc without downloading etc.

we now have our technicians sharing and collaborating on over 65 documents.
I just made a master document up to manage the huge explosion of knowledge

Regadrs Roland

2009/10/16 Royce Williams <Royce.Williams at billanook.vic.edu.au>

>  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
> *Sent:* Friday, 16 October 2009 10:32 AM
> *To:* elearning Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [elearning] Google comes to Monash
>
> 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
> 0412 614 062
> ------------------------------
>
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>
> yes, you get these tools as a Google Administrator
>
> 2009/10/16 Robert Ruzbacky <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
>> >
>> >
>> >>>> Roland Gesthuizen <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>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>> >>>> "Robert Ruzbacky" <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

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
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