Sheila Macneill » guug11 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill Cetis blog Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:58:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 Google Apps for Education UK User Group http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/02/16/google-apps-for-education-uk-user-group/ http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/02/16/google-apps-for-education-uk-user-group/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:14:30 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=691 Yesterday I attended the Google Apps for Education UK User Group meeting at the University of Loughborough. Organized by Martin Hamilton, the day provided a really useful update and insight into how google apps are being used throughout the education system, from primary schools to Universities.

Though the day was focused on google, the presentations, discussions, tweets did show an increasing demand from educators for more flexible, easy to use systems that just do what you want them to and are either free or have little cost. Google do seem to provide an awful lot (including jelly beans and rubik cubes). However they’re not the only game in town. But they do have awfully deep pockets, and I did have an overwhelming Pinky and the Brain sensation (what shall we do tonight, the same thing we do every night try to take over the world) but they have a much more successful strategy than my cartoon friends.

To give you a flavour of demo’s and discussion that took place over the day, I’ve collated some of the tweets into my story of the event.

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