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136 PANORAMA EASY COMMUNICATION IN THE CLOUDS (2) Google mail and Rainlendar In 2005 one of the system managers set up an eskar.org account at Google mail. Every teacher in the school received a school email address hisname@eskar.org, but in fact all email is hosted by Google. Up till then the email was hosted on the school server. This approach used to create a lot of problems. By outsourcing the mail the system manager ended years of frustration. Since then school email simply worked. And because of that, teachers actually started to use their school mail. It has evolved since then into a major communication channel. Users can access their mail in school or at home, over their internet browser or through their favourite email program, like Outlook. Google mail offers also its users a (video) chat function. Chat can be very practical for short communications if people are on line at the same time. In the primary and secondary school we set up some distance learning projects with various schools in Europe and our Google account was a useful tool to set this up. All email, which is addressed to the school in general, is forwarded to every teacher. So everybody is informed and with the search function within Google mail one can go back in time to find older information easily. During the current school year the school will be taking the next step. We are going to publish the school calendar online using the Google calendar of the eskar.org domain. The aim will be to make relevant information more available for every staff member. For improved accessibility every computer in school will have a program, called Rainlendar, which displays the Google calendar on each desktop. (Figure 6) When a teacher logs in, Rainlendar automatically starts up. It then synchronises with the Google calendar and shows the upcoming events for the next two weeks. The user can select the school calendars of the primary school, the secondary school and/or the calendar with dates of the holidays. For ordinary users this information is “read only”. A few members of staff, like the educational advisers, ICT coordinators or secretaries, have the right to add information. When desired, these users open a new window by clicking on the appropriate date (for example 25 th of November). (Figure 7) Figure 6 Rainlendar displays the school calendar In this example the information is entered: “Career counsellors year 5 (no lessons)”. Next the time of the event is submitted and the appropriate calendar selected. Subsequently this new event is synchronized over the EskarOS calendar and Rainlendar is updated on every screen in the school and at home. (Figure 8) Of course this is a very efficient way to keep every staff member of the school community informed. At the same time, this communication channel is not intrusive, it is simply there if you want it. The user can decide which calendars are of interest and switch off the ones of lesser relevance. At the same time, an educational counsellor
or secretary can enter new information very easily. No sheets of paper need to be printed, photocopied, displayed or put into pigeonholes. The program runs under Windows, MacOS or Linux and is available in many languages. All information is stored in the Google calendar and can also be accessed by browser over the Internet when teachers login into the eskar.org domain. This can be practical when members of staff are travelling. Teachers will have the possibility to use Rainlendar at home as well, keeping up to date all the time. Rainlendar can be downloaded from www.rainlendar.net. Please notice that only the pro version synchronizes with Google. On request a site licence can be bought. O f c o u r s e m o re a p p l i c a t i o n s a re conceivable. One possibility would be to add additional calendars for all years. Teachers would be able to enter their tests, school trips, etc. For now, we are busy implementing this practical, versatile, easy to use and affordable means of communication in the cloud. François Roosegaarde Bisschop roosegaardef@eskar.org Eugene Voorneman voornemane@eskar.org Figure 7 Window for entering new information Figure 8 Updated info PANORAMA 137
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