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15 days of Google answers – day 4

Published on 3 March 2008 in google education apps. 1 Comment

It’s the fourth day in our series of Q&A from the Google Education Apps team in the UK.  Question 4 was posed by Richard Millwood, Reader in Distributed Learning at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton.

“Have you considered an option to mark text with a colour background or text colour to show which user contributed? For me, revving up the collaborative aspects of Google Apps is number one – far preferable to trying to match desktop software’s functionality.” - Richard Millwood

Google replied: 

“We absolutely agree with you – Google Apps was always devised with collaboration in mind rather than to mimick the functionality of traditional desktop solutions. Our aim is to provide an alternative way of working by focusing on collaboration to help people work together more efficiently and more effectively. We’re constantly working on improving how easy and useful it is for users to interact with documents, spreadsheets and presentations so watch this space….”

15 days of Google answers – day 3

Published on 29 February 2008 in google education apps. 3 Comments

Today’s question came from Dave Stacey, who teaches History at Olchfa School. Dave asked “Are there plans to bring other Google services into the Apps for Education package (notebook would be particularly useful)?”notebook_150x55.gif

Google replied:

We get many requests for incorporating useful features into Google Apps. The cloud computing (or software as a service as it’s sometimes called) model allows for frequent and regular updates to our products because changes can be automatically delivered over the Internet. While we can’t give precise details today, we are always adding new features to Google Apps to increase its usefulness and we very much welcome user feedback on what they would like to see.

15 days of Google answers – day 2

Published on 28 February 2008 in google education apps. 2 Comments

The second question we put to the UK Google Education Apps team was suggested by Damian Bariexca, Teacher of English at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, New Jersey.

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Will Google be incorporating Jot wikis into their Google Apps packages anytime soon? – Damian Bariexca

Google replied:

We share JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online, and JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Apps. We think the next great advances in worker productivity will come from better enabling group collaboration — and a lot of that will happen on the Web, so please keep an eye on this space and on us.

15 days of Google answers – Day 1

Published on 27 February 2008 in google education apps. 0 Comments

google_logo_60wht.gifThe EdTechRoundUp team were given the opportunity to ask the Google Education Apps team in the UK some questions. We put out a request for questions on twitter and asked people to submit the questions they would like us to put to Google on their behalf. Over the next 15 days, we will publish a question per day together with the response we received from Google.

Our first question was posed by Kristian Still, director of E-Learning at Hamble Community Sports College. Kristian asked,

Do Google anticipate launching a UK Educators program as Google currently organise the US?
Google told us:

You’ll be very pleased to hear we already launched the Google UK Schools site a few months ago and you can find it here: google.co.uk/schools

It’s a great resource for teachers at primary and secondary level and includes lesson plans written by teachers, student activity ideas, a discussion group for teacher, tips for how to use Google tools in the classroom and more. Look forward to hearing your feedback on the site and its resources.