Dick Sblog

Words from a man with passion about online educational collaboration

Entries from October 2007

Is it good or is it rubbish?

October 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Back in the days when my SBLN colleagues and I were involved with the Web for Schools Project (the dark days before Dreamweaver or Frontpage, when the Internet looked like a true frontier of opportunity and the big software houses hadn’t started aggressively marketing clever web products to education) it was blindingly obvious that we [...]

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google apps

October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Well, here’s the answer for schools – break free of a paid dependence on Microsoft and start creating a free dependency on Google. Their range of applications now provides access-from-anywhere resources for schools and their pupils that covers email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, text & voice, calendar, webpages… No hosting charges, no software to [...]

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