Google Apps for Education: Gmail and Spam

Schools-On-I-Net chose to integrate its online school management system with Google Apps for Education’s Gmail email product.  One of the main reasons why is that we liked Gmail because of its SPAM handling, user interface, and suite of collaborative tools.

Gmail has the highest customer satisfaction for free anti-spam filters.

Spam is an issue for any email system administrator.  Google Apps for Edu offers great spam filters. But there are some whose email boxes get more spam than others.  Some reasons why include:

• The email account or domain is posted on public webpages
• The email account is “guess-able” on a particular domain (like info@ or admin@…)
• The email account is submitted through online forms that may not be secure (Always look for a notation of security when using online forms like a lock at the bottom or an https which means that information is transfered in an encrypted format.)

To learn more about Spam and Gmail,  click here.

SOIN works with Gmail or any email system you choose for your school. Our integration with Gmail provides some additional features, like managing users in one place, automatically updating user changes and sharing contact groups between SOIN and Gmail.

More email protection: SOIN Gateway; Postini

SOIN schools using Google Apps Gmail have an added layer of protection. SOIN applies our own custom filters to protect our users further.

Google Apps for Education is free for schools. For additional services, including more control on incoming and outgoing emails, archiving and domain level rules, Google offers Postini, a per user per year service add on.  http://www.google.com/postini

Hooray! St. Hubert Catholic High School is now using Google Apps for Education.
And we helped set them up. Contact us for help setting up your Google Apps for EDU account.  Email services@schoolsoninet.com

We thank St. Hubert Catholic High School for providing us with the following list of Google Apps for Edu references for us to share with you:

Google Apps - Overview

Google Apps Quick Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJT3pagjd8s (video)

Google Apps in Practice (approx. 11 mins.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leuvce3v5BM

Google Apps General Overview (2 mins.)

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/apps_video.html

Google Apps General Overview Tour (approx. 10-15 mins.)

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/index.html

Google for Educators

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Google Apps Training Overview

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/topicWelcome/index.html

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Apps/index.html (ppt)

Google Gmail

Gmail Overview and Help

http://mail.google.com/support/

Voice and Video Chat

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100173

Google Docs

Google Docs Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

Google Forms

http://edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=1009 (approx. 10 mins.)

Google Calendar

Google Calendar Tour

http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/tour.html

Google Calendar and Contacts on mobile phone

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html

Google Sites

Google Sites Tutorial

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9cfd5af860d9933673be&page=&viewtype=&category=

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

More Google Products

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Presentation March 12 at George Westinghouse Information Technology High School

Title: Online School Management using Schools-On-I-Net, integrated with Google Apps for Education Date: March 12, 2009 Time: 3pm - 5pm Location: George Westinghouse Information Technology High School. 105 Tech Place, Brooklyn, NY www.withs.org Rabbi Schwartz, Director of Technology of Yeshivah of Flatbush is a confirmed guest for this date. Rabbi Schwartz has been using Schools-On-I-Net for the last 4 years as the Yeshivah’s centralized school management system for grades N-12.

Now more than ever is when you need a system like Schools-On-I-Net to connect your community and increase efficiencies. Learn why Schools-On-I-Net may be the right choice for your school.

Agenda:

Schools-On-I-Net School Management Software integrated with Google Apps for Education Bugs Out for Going Green!

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Schools-On-I-Net introduces SOIN Bug Bags.  These cute little bug bags help us live green and stay green.

A green fact… in the U.S. alone we throw away more than 100 billion plastic bags every year. If everyone brought their own reusable bags we could reduce this number significantly. And did you know that many food stores give you a credit on your receipt when you bring your own shopping bag? So these stores will pay for your new bug bag if you use it often enough…

Bug bags are sewn in New Jersey, and printed in New York City.

Do your part and “b.y.o.b.” - bring your own bug bags for shopping!

Bug bags are made from heavyweight 10 oz. natural cotton canvas with 75% recycled cotton content. The handles are natural cotton webbing.

The bug bags are 18″ wide and 16.5″ high with a 5.5″ bottom gusset; the handles are 22″ long.

Get your bug bag today…

• You receive a whimsical tote that helps reduce waste and protect our environment.
• A portion of proceeds from the sale of all Bug Bags goes to MS Research.
• Purchased through Schools-On-I-Net, a portion of proceeds goes back to your school. Name your school when prompted.
  

Click on the Buy Now button to purchase your bug bag (while supplies last)
Price: $20
Shipping: $5


Bugs

Ant $20.00 Catepillar $20.00 Lady Bug $20.00 Snail $20.00

Your School

Score a bug bag for free!

First 20 SOIN community members (administrators, teachers, parents or students) to submit their SOIN Story will receive a free Bug Bag as a Thank You from the SOIN Team. [Your affiliation with the SOIN school you name will be verified.]  Click here to submit your story.
Submissions should be 1-2 paragraphs long (at least 5 sentences) describing how you use SOIN in the classroom, to promote collaboration or to engage parents and students. We look forward to hearing from you!

Schools-On-I-Net offers weekly webinars so you can get to know us and our software.

We encourage collaboration among educators, engagement with parents, and use of technology to teach in the world students now learn and thrive in: the digital world. 

We provide a paperless education system, simply because we care about our environment.  The win-win-win of it is that our schools use less paper, less toner, fewer stamps and spend less time sending out mailings or answering redundant phone calls…so they can save some money and some trees in the process.

We provide support services including telephone, web, and online resources because any system is as good as it can be used… and we want you to use ours.

Webinar Topics covered:

What is Schools-On-I-Net
Unique features
Multi Language Text Support
Feature List
-Demographics
-Academics
-Report Cards
-Parent Teacher Conferences
-Gmail Communications using Google Apps for Education
Screen shots from
-Parent View
-Teacher View
-Academic Admin/Principals View
Conclusion: Schools-On-I-Net is the right choice for today’s schools.

Link to the Power Point Presentation available by request. Contact Us today.

See the webinar schedule or contact us for a personal appointment.