Google is currently offering schools a hosted solution for their email, calendar, and chat through Google Apps Education Edition, an integrated communication and collaboration solution. Thier offering includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Sites, and Google Docs and Google Video, all using our own school’s domain.
Google Apps Education Edition includes:
- Gmail: Email storage and search tools that help your students find information fast and instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
- Google Calendar: Students can organize their schedules and share events and calendars with others.
- Google Talk: Students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world.
- Google Docs: Share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
- Google Sites: Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one site.
- Google Video for education: A video hosting and sharing solution that enables schools and other organizations to use video as an effective medium for internal communication and collaboration.
For more information directly from Google visit http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/