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Lately, I have been thinking a lot about GAfe vs Office 365, as it is a hot topic of discussion within our tech integration team and some adminstrators at our school. There are\u00a0many CIS schools using Google Apps,\u00a0and I’m trying to figure out\u00a0how my school can maintain a hybrid system using both Google Apps and Office 365.<\/p>\n
We have been using Office 365 for a couple of years now. Here are a number of benefits of using Office 365 that I believe both faculty and students enjoy at our school, and would be very disappointed to see go.<\/p>\n
Microsoft Outlook<\/strong> Microsoft OneNote<\/strong> So then this leaves me to exploring all of the AWESOME Google apps<\/strong> (ones built by Google and the copious amounts of third-party GAfE apps) that are out there. As far as collaboration tools goes, I’m sorry Office 365 still has a ways to go. So many steps, so many failed syncs, failed collaborations when we use OneDrive and Office 365 syncing. I have had syncing problems with OneDrive for Business pretty much from day one (and being a tech teacher …I have given it many hours and months (!) of patience as I try to sort through the issues with our IT department. It’s hard to encourage students to use it, when I have been tempted to pitch my laptop out the window because of my own syncing and collaboration problems using it!<\/p>\n I can find many sites out there debating one against the other…but I’m wondering are there any other independent schools who are using both? What successes or advice can you give me about navigating a hybrid model?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, I have been thinking a lot about GAfe vs Office 365, as it is a hot topic of discussion within our tech integration team and some adminstrators at our school. There are\u00a0many CIS schools using Google Apps,\u00a0and I’m trying to figure out\u00a0how my school can maintain a hybrid system using both Google Apps and … Continue reading “And in this corner…GAfe. And in the other corner…Office 365.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,9,13,11,10],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-integration","tag-hybrid","tag-mieexpert15","tag-msftedu","tag-office365","tag-onenote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"outlok\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/erinorourke\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/50\/files\/2015\/01\/outlok.jpg\")
<\/a>– this really is a sophisticated and user-friendly interface. We consistently use mail, calendar and task functions A LOT. \u00a0There\u00a0has been such a change in productivity when we started using Outlook. Here are some of the functions that I love:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>– I really can’t say enough about it (and I have said A LOT about it over the last couple of years). I won’t go into all of the awesome things about it, but I know that there would be an uprising at Branksome if we ever stopped using it (WE WILL ALWAYS USE IT!). The one thing I can say is that my assessments and checking in on student work has never been so efficient. It will be the one product that I will indoctrinate every school into using for the rest of my career. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n