Why Google Apps for Education?

[nileshkantak]

The Right and Trusty way go online with the help of Google.com Google Organisation is a true friend for life. Google act as a close friend,teacher and much more...Use It, Feel it, and Enjoy it for Life,, Google is a real life partner :)

[rhomaremmy]

I hope every administrator for Education have watched this video. one thing that we people need is the QUALITY of education. More so, it depends upon the response of the listener. but this one is undeniably great.

[ITSharing]

Very cool ...

Why Google Apps for Education?

[Kroman1128]

Very good power messaging presentation

[aJustinBieberSongs]

oGoogle apps is also for education that;s cool.

[BilltechSolutions]

nice work from google !

[studysync]

Interesting video, there is no question that outsourcing your educational needs to the cloud is the way to go. So, "way to go", Google!

[jowsmith100]

very interesting video

[JDMarine89]

They need to quickly come out with a desktop application based on something like Open Office like they did with google chrome. If they make it better than windows they will have MS in a checkmate.

[pintu19742005]

wt u r name

[DanielBerlinTV]

7:11 wise words - running your own server can be a nightmare of security breaches, not to mention the never-ending expense.

[DanielBerlinTV]

That server room looks like a V mothership lol.

[sagar2807]

Google Apps is interesting . However I am not sure if it is free.

[Gortess]

@sagar2807 with google, there is no free. only ads.

[MikeReloaded7]

@pleabargain I would also like to use it, but it seems I need to have a domain!! I do not have a domain! I am a simple teacher and my boss does not know about Google Apps. If I am not the owner of the domain, can I still use Google Apps?

[SuperTakashii]

Honestly, as cool as Sam is, she sounds completely stoned.

[SuperTakashii]

I'm Jeff. I'm Sam. And we're here to tell you about the money you could be saving on your car insurance.

[JacanaProductions]

Sam :) 

[123jschwartz]

Hi Jeff and Sam check out this video on a game I built for my high school math and woodshop students. It works so well, a second grader learned his fractions in 15 minutes. It would be a perfect Google App for education. contact me at

[tubeman25]

and computers that still have floppy drives like at my work and windows 95,98 NS couple with XP which is the most up to date one

[cmsteinberg]

Ready to go!

Please tell me this: No body has ever been able to answer my question. Who is going to pay for my new bandwidth needs.  No matter what they say, as all my students are doing everything on line the need for network bandwidth will increase? Who also is going to manage my user logins and the abiltiy of users to cheat and share information behind the teachers backs. What about Quickbooks classes and other products that I need to teach. At the end of the day companies use MS Word.

[thedrumbum1990]

Hi Jeff and Sam :)

[budwzr]

That's great, but what about the lousy teachers? GiGo.

[farrahcarr]

Slow friend?

[test123ok]

If I was taking notes (in class or anywhere) I would feel uncomfortable to know that my browser could crash at any time. g-docs makes a great effort at auto-saving. But in some classrooms wi-fi is not great/non- existent. I use open-office and upload the file later, but I would really like it if google came up with a desktop version docs with auto sync/merge when connection is available.

[CJPoll]

@test123ok Google gears did that, but I think they discontinued it.

[otterboxiphone]

I have to admit that Google has good foresight and good business model.

[25koln]

Auf dieses Video antworten...

[megjonmeyers]

Jeff and Sam - are you available to present at a conference for leaders of schools across the country?

[kaplanmediagroup]

u guys are real smart but boy do u ever need advise on fashion...

[billymine130]

and what should i do if internet conection fails, or don't have one ??

[Flyborg]

@billymine130 Well, if you want to send email, obviously you need to have internet whether you're using gmail or not. If you simply want to access messages, there's an option in gmail to cache the messages locally so you can read them offline. (or you can always use outlook with gmail, but then you can't use the cool gmail features / web interface)

[S0chan]

Comparing management of electricity and the management of information, mostly personal one is just a poor comparison.

Information is much more important and becoming dependent on some outside provider for access you YOUR information is both dangerous and stupid.

I don't mind cloud computing that much but for most professional people and companies it's simply not a safe option.

[enentrup]

"I don't mind cloud computing that much but for most professional people and companies it's simply not a safe option."

That's really an uninformed conclusion to reach. So let me help: this company (Google) doesn't have a stock price as high as it does by taking this product line and their customers security, lightly. This is where it's all headed. Getting on board increases the demand for security and stability.

[S0chan]

I know, I'm actually an IT specialist and I am fully aware of the level of security provided by google. That's is not really my problem.

My problem is that when I lose my connection I also lose the access to most of my data. What I would like to see would be an app(or apps) provided by Google that would allow me to have my own local copy of all the data stored by Google for me. If that was possible I wouldn't really mind cloud computing.

I'm sorry if I didn't make my position clear enough.

[jackoftrades987]

We just rolled this out to our students and staff this last october. Staff are still using exchange, but using the google piece for collaboration with students. Will be having discussions about switching staff to Google for all e-mail and getting rid of exchange.

We use our Active Directory usernames and passwords by using the easily implimented Moodle SSO plugin. Recently discussed our implimentation at the Minnesota Ties Technology Conference 2009.

[lesleyrcoe]

Do you also create your student accounts using active directory? We are trying to figure out how to create student network accounts with AD but gmail and not exchange.

[Timasu]

Our teachers and staff would love to incorporate the cloud computing model. Where we are getting resistance is from the district IT guys.

[TheKyleowen]

i use google apps standerd and it is pretty good

[TyroneLamoureux]

I'm just saying, I would so dream of managing my own electricity plant.... solar cells... wind turbines... inverters on personal gym equipment.

[joseguitar1]

Interesante.

[Paddis92]

I must admit that keeping your money buried in the backyard most likely is a lot safer than handing it all over to a bank.

[gustavocabrall]

I think she is NOT OK. Did she take something? :S

[ckhw2]

Hahaa... It's adorable how Sam tries to pull off a "happy casual look" :D She's obviously nervous as hell... But good job Sam! I promise that most people won't notice it, except of course everyone who read my comment :-| Sorry...

[xqyzii]

google supports open formats via export functions, so that can't really happen.

[jeffms]

I agree that it's a nice business model to have Google take care of backups for business. However, I think it's crucial that all data is directly downloadable in standard-compliant format... to make it possible to still have a backup if something DOES happen to Google.

[bwrightau]

Or if google vendor locks you.

[initialSAW]

Google Docs is blocked at our school - WTF?!

[kisszso]

You must call the 24*7 support that teach the moron school's admin to set up the system :D

[Wormtail81]

I wish school districts would stop wasting money on slow, vulnerable, unreliable electronic mail protocols and just use g-mail! Seriously.

[sandygizzie]

I'm with Jeff's Grandfather these days - I reckon my money is much safer in the backyard!

[dvdcip]

im gong to his backyard

[CamelClass]

uh huh, Google may not share your data with anybody else. But there's no mention about sharing your data with Google. No mention that they won't snoop around in my data like they do in my Gmail inbox. Will they blend in ads for Starbucks when I save a document containing the word "coffee"? I'm afraid that Google is more and more becoming a "bad" company just like Microsoft, I use their Search because it's still the best but nothing else.

[prashantvenom]

i kinda agree

[daniel142005]

No person at Google ever reads your emails, part of their software looks for keywords and uses them to make the advertisements on the page relevant to you. If you want to get technical, your computer "reads" your files when it indexes them, some ISPs "read" your web traffic to prioritize or filter certain things.

Bottom line, if you are that worried about privacy then you should go back to writing your letters or start encrypting your emails.

[kisszso]

and send the letter by dove :D

[doug123yt]

I am not too worried about big brother Google at this point, maybe I should be; but I take no comfort in the idea that "only a computer" reads my mail, not a human. I am sure a computer program can be taught to violate privacy in a way never even imagined of human readers. i think you're right, we should be encrypting our emails just like we used to put letters in "envelopes" so only the recipient would see them.

[TheJoeTierney]

There are no ads in Google Apps for Education.

[phobik2000]

Interesting asterisc, specially if you go and read the privacy statment and user agreement, where it states that googles own anything u post, share or upload...

[legggomyego]

They look soooo friendly but Google doesn't even support freedom of information.. they would rather censor they're results in China for a couple extra bucks.

Fucking bullshit man.. makes me wonder why they wouldn't do it in the US.. we all know the Government would love that shit

and Google the Military Commissions Act before they censor that, too.

[TheDailyPanda]

Google stated they would rather give the Chinese public the most information their government would allow them than no information at all.

[legggomyego]

What good is information if a government is censoring or it for their benefit? Being an American company, they should have banned it. The information will shape the way they think instead of giving them options.

[AakirX]

How about this, you disconnect from the Internet?

[legggomyego]

Why, because I make valid points that people aren't comfortable with?

[TheDailyPanda]

I agree with you leggomyego, in the end that would've been the best possible decision for the best possible outcome for the people.

Though I did visit China last year and I don't think Google is to blame here, it's just the whole government past and present that is the true underlying problem.

Yes Google is still a business but they'd rather reach everyone rather than just certain countries.

[legggomyego]

I think Google is just as guilty as the Chinese government and it goes to show you that they're willing to show you altered information and pseudo-truths in exchange for a couple bucks extra.

That's Unamerican as far as I'm concerned.... but that's right, real patriots are a dying breed today. No one reads the Constitution any more and no one understands WHY the things that are in place are in the first place.

The entire world is turning into a dictatorship, plain and simple.

[TheDailyPanda]

I think the way you described it makes it even more "American."

Just imagine China and other countries being left behind in this technological, at your hands information era.... that's really bad for the people, the user in mind.

If you remember, Google wasn't sure if it wanted to enter China because of what they demanded and it wasn't till a bit later they did.

[TheDailyPanda]

And..

I remember seeing video of Chinese people, especially college students, completely happy that they now had the ability to gain the knowledge.

As bad as you may see it the way it currently is, just imagine how much worse it would be (for the user) to be without any information.

Iono, my 2 cents.

[legggomyego]

Once again,

censored information is disinformation.

Disinformation does not equate to democracy, or anything the United States is supposed to represent, FLAT OUT.

But I'm not going to argue with you because we obviously believe two different things. It was a great discussion though.

[TheDailyPanda]

Yeah man, good talk.

Let's do this again sometime.

:]

[killcactus]

Wow - a discussion online that didn't turn into a flame war!

Yay!

[patricknelson]

Great video, well squared away. Appropriately explains exactly why anyone should use Google Apps.

[Xedixo]

Google Apps are shit, shit and shit again!

It's spyware!

Get away from it!

[chibone1]

boring... seriously i rather have steve jobs do the talking... i mean what google apps... i dont see any..

[JacobP2008]

is it just me or like 5 seconds in does he look at her rack and smile :S

[DRcus]

lol he does

[sermoa]

Yes i noticed that too! It looked really creepy!!

[bragonfly]

now thats 1 pair of HIGHLY uncharismatic people

[jfalbo]

I love it, use it, and promote it.

You teachers ready to retire that don't want to be part of the future need to get out of the way. "JOHN (COUGAR) MELLENCAMP"

[PhantomStrings]

hey, question, does anyone know how to add google apps e-mail to ucoz or freewebs? it says i need to configure MX records or something...

[CamelClass]

sure, any halfway serious company is going to have Google host their sensitive data. Nope, ain't gonna happen.

[RitzKrave]

Yeah, like Amazon is any better...... not! Its really scary how few companys have such a big influence over us.

[ortzinator]

Sam's voice is creepy...

[binary132]

They both talk like their audience has an average age below the driving limit.

[JHVH1]

You do know who owns youtube right...

[samuofm]

Awesome, I just moved my small business to google apps and I couldn't be happier.

[steadydisciplined]

Brilliant!!! Thanks.

[James92802]

this cuts off at 6:14 for me... whats up with that?

[ccskate]

idk y, but this works for me lol

[nicolasgoogle]

Google Apps rocks !!! and Sam too ;o)

[zadiemom]

Very cool. Good explanation of cloud computing.

[nagarjun424]

ive been using google apps for over 2 years now... ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

[willmonds]

huh

[jnjenga]

Nice application for collaborating none sensitive information like university assignments and none personal information.

Coca Cola wouldn't upload their secret recipe to Google App. and so wouldn't Google upload their secret algorithm.

[openmindedskeptic]

Public key crypto. You can solve the privacy problem with public key crypto. How much were those US State Department employees bribed to release presidential candidates' personal information? Do you expect me to believe that Google is more secure than the US State Department?!

The ONLY way to protect user privacy is by only allowing Google to handle private information when it is encrypted with keys that ONLY the users possess.

[jkeltner2002]

One real challenge with encryption for these services is that is prevents Google from providing search across the content. Search is one of the most popular features of GMail, and using encryption where the user possesses the key would break this capability.

[openmindedskeptic]

No, the processing for indexing and searching would just have to be implemented client-side; with mail client plug-ins for, e.g., Outlook, and, for the browser, open-source java applets, like Hushmail's pgp mail client, or even with javascript. Indexing would run in the background, using idle bandwidth while the user is reading, composing, or simply logged in, but doing something else.

[A5runner]

I started using google apps and i can't get enough of it!!! " *pssst* lets find this guy's grandpa and find his gold! :D

[allismarie03]

SOLD! Good presentation - nice inclusion of the grandpa!

[ivyann02]

HE IS SOOOOOOO DREAMY & BRILLIANT! Definitely marriage-material. What a treat to go home with him every night!

[gsmokha]

google is no. 1 :)

[esunday]

Electricity supply/form was not standardized 50 years ago?  Not correct, you should have said 100 years ago.

[yoyo4real21]

I LOVE GOOGLE!!!!!!

[Jaredhalterman]

wow you guys are so cool being the 2nd and 3rd

[88CoCoCola]

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[rockman5790]

FIRST VIEW

[IdleGod]

I use google apps... I love it. Don't have anyone else on my domain, but its cool even for 1.