Exports contacts from Kerio into gmail

This is a 5 minute video on how to export your contacts from Kerio to be able to import them into gmail. 

Here are step-by-step directions to follow this process written by Gail and Marion at Jefferson (links to a document with directions)

This is a multiple step process and does require you to use the apple address book to complete the import/export process.

Moving Kerio Calendars to Google Calendar

Some of you are already familiar with Google Calendars or want to get started with an easily sharable online calendar right away.

This is great. 

Some of you are extremely comfortable using Kerio online calendars. This is fine as well. Our current Kerio calendars are not going away anytime this school year so everyone has time to formally learn how to use Google Calendars. 

Just a note: Kerio calendars and Google calendars do not "talk" well with others. If you decide you want to start using Google Calendars, make sure your team or office is going to switch to Google Calendars as well!

For those of you looking to take the jump and get started with Google Calendars right away, watch the quick screencast below!

GAME ON: New Ulm ISD 88 Google Apps for Education

Get signed into your Google Apps for Education account today!

JUMP TO SIGN-ON DIRECTIONS

Our Google Accounts are setup and ready for you to start using. I am excited for all of us to have access to "NEW ULM APPS," a powerful collection of tools to collaborate, communicate, and create. I know, too many C's in one sentence, but it really is exciting to have Google Apps for Education as a school district. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR TRANSITION:

1. As of today, everyone has access to a large suite of online tools to create, collaborate, and communicate as an innovative school district. These tools are hosted and updated by Google, which allows us to focus much more on instruction and less on maintaining servers. 
2. It is nearly impossible to know and understand ALL of Google's Education tools. To scratch the surface on the variety of ways we communicate and work together, helping all staff navigate and transfer to a faster email and calendar system is a priority for me. 
3. Our Email is going to switch to Google's email, called Gmail. This is scheduled to happen over winter break. Right now your Gmail inbox is empty and continue to be until our incoming email is switched over to Gmail. Our current emails system (Kerio) will be available for at least one year from our switch to Gmail. 
4. Your individual calendars and contacts can be exported from our current email system (Kerio) and imported into Gmail. This will need to be done by each user. I am creating videos, written directions, and will communicate a schedule with you in the near future for technology staff in buildings to support everyone in this transition.  
5. Explore, ask questions, share insight, and support one another. I consider Google Drive & Docs  to be one of the largest assets of our New Ulm Apps. If you have used any of these tools personally PLEASE share when possible. 

Please email or call me with all questions and ideas about how this transition impacts you or your team. I want to be transparent about how these tools are implemented and focus on what we are gaining.

Click this link for directions to sign into New Ulm Apps (removed on Blog)

SIGNING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME: WATCH THIS!

~4 minute video that will walk you through each step of signing into New Ulm Apps and changing your password

ISD 88 Is Going Google

Google offers a suite of tools for collaboration, creation, and communication available at no cost to K-12 Schools called Google Apps for Education. Google Apps functions a lot like a personal Gmail, or Google account, but provides us with many more learning tools and a secure place to expand and collaborate with students, staff and beyond. Your Administrative Team met a number of times in the past few weeks to assess the benefits of these tools here in New Ulm Public Schools, and we are now in the first few stages of planning how and when we roll-out Google Apps for Education. I have much more I want to share in the near future, but you can find out more about Google Apps for Education by clicking this link.

Google Apps for Education is a large range of online tools, some of which are:

• Google Docs (or Google Drive) is a ‘cloud-based’ word processor you can collaborate in real-time with other people in the same document.

• Google Sites and Blogger.com are both places to create and share work online in a variety of ways.

• Gmail is Google’s email application that I believe to be easier to use than the current Kerio email.

• Google Calendar is a calendar system that is easy to share and access from almost any device or computer.

Switching out of Kerio email and into Gmail for our email is part of this process, and I will be working with teachers and staff in the upcoming weeks to formulate a plan to implement and learn these tools that we can all be comfortable with.