Google Apps Sites- No RSS Feeds

Unless I'm missing it the pages in Google Sites do not have RSS feeds. They have a "subscribe" feature but I don't see our friendly orange icon.

I'm hoping that this is a feature that is on the horizon.

I'd like to see a teacher be able to subscribe to her students "sites" to have a dashboard view of the updates.

Please clue me in if I'm missing it.

Google Apps for Education - Many Questions

Here at my District we are using Google Apps for Education as a small pilot. Our implementation is small and we've communicated with parents and students throughout the project.

The results are good and students/teachers are finding creative ways to use the web-based tools. The most popular activities are collaborative writing using Google Docs in Language Arts classes. Teachers are using the shared calendaring to coordinate their mobile laptop labs and more.

I have received frequent calls from school districts with questions about liability, AUP, filtering, monitoring, archiving, etc. I don't have all the answers. I do believe that we cannot wait until we have all the answers. Sometimes you forge ahead and improve and learn as you go.

In a recent announcement Google has added some monitoring, filtering, and archiving solutions for purchase. Yep, they're not free... yet.

I would be interested to know or be able to calculate the TCO of operating email/document services for thousands of students. Just maintaining email services for several hundred staff is a challenge given our current staffing levels. This task would increase our email service workload considerably if we did this in house.

I guess the biggest question is: how "private" is our email messaging if it's stored at Google? When it's in-house, I can always pull the plug.

This is VERY tempting, yet I have reservations. Ok, let's all agree to switch to Google for messaging/calendaring/document sharing!!! Uh, you go first! :)

PETE&C absolutely MUST change it´s name!

I am trying to follow the Pennsylvania Education Technology Expo and Conference from a distance. I am finding it very difficult to do! The ampersand (&) in the name appears to be problematic for technorati tag searches.

See the hitchhikr page on PETE&C! There is very little related to the conference! While some guy named Florida Pete has an interesting life, it is not exactly what I´m after.
(You do follow conference events with hitchhikr.com, don´t you?)

Compare the results of the PETE&C tag search with the recent METC tag search. No comparison.

Tagging is a wonderful way to share the photos, videos, live blogging, ustreams, and more. Well, I guess I will wait until my colleagues return to get the scoop.

Please, Pennsylvania, get rid of that ampersand and let the sharing begin.
At least I *think* that is the problem. Anyone else have ideas on what the problem could be?

Dear M$, Please don't cripple these tools!

I see that Microsoft is now in talks to acquire Ustream.tv. This following their bid to acquire Yahoo.

From a purely selfish standpoint I sit here hoping that Microsoft doesn't cripple Flickr and Ustream for non-Microsoft browsers. Today these services seem to be platform agnostic.

I'm not an open source purist but I do tend to use FOSS whenever I have a choice. I just have to wonder if Microsoft will develop these tools ignoring the "10 percenters"?

Are you concerned?