A longtime user dispels the myths that continue to make schools wary of adopting Google’s free platform of web productivity tools.
"Google Apps for Education has emerged as a viable resource for K–12 schools that wish to provide their students with e-mail and collaboration tools but lack the money to pay for such services. The integrated, hosted communication and collaboration solution offers schools core functions such as e-mail storage and search (Gmail); scheduling (Google Calendar); instant messaging (Google Talk); document, spreadsheet and presentation creation and sharing (Google Docs); content management (Google Sites); and video hosting and sharing (Google Video)."
There are 13 misconceptions about Google Apps for Education and this article addresses them. There is also access to the Google presentation.
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