Now this is what I love about web apps. I showed a colleague the Google Docs system (we use Google Apps, Education Edition at our 13-18 school), and he had the courage, imagination, tenacity to use it to share our sports day results live on the net.
You’ll be able to read the article, and follow a link to the results here, http://learn.gcus.net
I love simple ideas, that are so powerful. An dI love working with imaginative, courageous teachers! Great work Phil!
There’s a great little Python script to take a csv file and easily add addresses to email lists in Google Apps. It’s saved me (or someone else!) a lot of time, and was a great reason to install and learn how to use Python. See the script here and read about the mistakes I made in learning to use it.
We’re soon going to partnering with another local sixth form to provide a greater choice of courses for students. This means that students could be studying in different locations as well as at home each week. Although we could host their documents at one of the two schools and make them accessible over the Internet our local authority never seems to make this very easy. We also can’t afford to implement a complete Email solution to our current students and staff.
So here comes Google Apps Education Edition to help us!
Google Apps provides “free communication, collaboration and publishing tools” which we “customize with our school’s logo, colour scheme and content.” without us having to provide or maintain any hardware or software.
As our headteacher said “Wow – the Google Apps looks fantastic – there must be a catch somewhere!”
Two quick answers:
And we think we have a winner, our first Virtual Private Server to host our school systems - if I give them a plug they might increase the already generous discount 
- just type in EUKCOUPON to get a 15% discount.
For our £200 year, we seem to get:
…and a free setup and transfer our site from Siteground - yipppee… all I have to do is change the name servers!
I’d recommend the deal to anyone, and just hope the quality of the service matches the promises.
We’re shopping for a Virtual Private Server. Hopefully, at least 256Mb RAM guaranteed, Linux based, with cPanel, hosted in the UK with fantastic support - all for under £25 a month? Here are the contenders so far:
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