Waiting...

After last week's triumph of getting our domain name, I've been stuck.

I have been waiting for our site to get access to Google Apps for Education. I think there was a bit of confusion between my district admin and me about this process. I thought I was supposed to wait for the application to be reviewed. After a week, however, I realized the application hadn't actually gone in. I visited http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/get_apps.html, and submitted the request.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail from Liz at Google, who explained that I needed to turn OFF Google+ (didn't even know it was on!), and then they'd get me started.

Here's the information she sent (for the next people who are going to try this):
 In the Google Apps administrator control panel, make sure that Google+ is not available or turned “off”.  You can learn more about enabling/disabling Google+ in this Help Center article http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1631746&topic=1631857

I was able to do that easily, and wrote her back. Within a few minutes, I received the e-mail saying that we now have Google Apps for Education.

As it happens, I am in the middle of a bunch of "pilots" and equipment trials at our school. This project, along with the others,  needs to be rolled out carefully, so that we really are focusing on ways to enhance student learning and achievement, and not just implementing "cool" or "easy".   I've been collecting reference sites, and welcome comments sharing favorite sites as well.  I would love to have subject specific sites (for middle school), as well as general use sites.

Thanks!