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From next year, all of our pupils will be using eduBuzz for email too. EduBuzz has bought into the
Google Mail system to provide this service. As well as email, this system also provides chat, calendar
sharing, document sharing and website creation. As you're reading this, I can safely assume that
you've made it through mail and docs at least. This document aims to share a few little pointers for
each of these applications.
You can use these links to jump to the App you're interested in:
1. Mail
As this email system is made by google, it's built around their principle of searching. The idea is you
don't have to delete or organise your emails, you just search. You don't need to worry about filling up
your account, you have masses of space. The exact space you have is always changing, but mine
currently says:
By my quick calculations, 7328MB is enough space for around 4 million text-only emails!
The following image gives you a wee quick guide to some of the basics of eduBuzz mail, but you
should really explore and play to find out more. Send an email, have a look in settings and try to find
someone to chat to.
The pupils are due to be on this email system next year and it is great for communicating with them.
To avoid having to check both of your accounts, you can set your edubuzz.org emails to be forwarded
to your ross.elcschool.org.uk account under Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP:
2. Calendar
Your edubuzz.org account also comes with a calendar. This calendar has three great features. Firstly,
you can access it online from anywhere. Secondly, you can share calendars with other edubuzz.org
users. And finally, you can have more than one calendar.
When you first login to your calendar, it will display in day view. I don't find this very useful compared
to month view. You can change this by clicking on the month tab on the top right:
You can change this view to be your default under Settings > General:
Don't forget to press Save after making any changes to your settings!
I've added you to a new calendar I've created for the good practice lunches, which you should've had
an email for. Why not try creating your own calendar:
Using this system you could create calendars with deadlines etc. and share this with your pupils...?
3. Documents
Your edubuzz.org account also supplies you with the Google Docs feature. This allows you to:
• Upload documents from your computer to the web and edit them.
• Create documents online and edit them.
• Share documents with other edubuzz.org users either as a 'viewer' or as a 'collaborator'.
• 'Document' > these are 'Word' type documents (you're looking at one of these now).
• 'Spreadsheet' > these are 'Excel' type documents.
• 'Presentation' > these are 'PowerPoint' type documents.
• 'Forms' > These are for creating questionnaires. Could be used to create homeworks...?
• You can also upload and share PDF files, but these can't be edited.
The first screen you see when you arrive in Docs looks like this:
Try creating a new document. You'll hopefully find that it feels very similar to Word/Excel/Powerpoint.
Try sharing your document with other users:
When sharing you need to decide if the other users are going to be viewers or collaborators. Viewers
can only view your document and can't edit it, whereas collaborators can edit your document.
There is huge potential for the docs system in school. Pupils could work together on documents both
at school and at home. Staff could check the progress of pupils' work as their working on it and
provide ongoing feedback. You can even use Tools > Revision history to see who has done what in the
document. Lots of possibilities!
As well as using the Wordpress system to create websites, the Google Apps system allows you to
create sites. These sites are quite different. They're much more like a Wiki than a Blog. You could
create a site on here that the pupils can then edit. Or they can create and edit their own sites
collaboratively.
When you first login you'll see the sites that you have access to. You should see the test site I've
created for this training.
The best way to learn more is just to have a go and play around with the features.