Am I the only one who is worried about the allotment changes on abbynet?
As a person who has spent the last couple of years following the district initiatives and the support for intergrating technology into teaching, I was saddened with the new down grading of Abbynet space for teachers our district. After feeling encouraged through the last two years in the technology learning community to create technologies for classroom use (for example, many of us have webpages on Abbynet), we are now being told that the maximum space we get on abbynet is 200M (double of the average teacher). My abbynet account with my webpage is 2.8GB of our current 3GB capacity. The current allotment does not take into consideration the importance of the item,s like websites, in maintaining contact with parents and enabling students to have a connection to the classroom outside of confines of the school buidling.
I guess I am concerned for the future of my project, and others like it, if it can't be moved in the next 10 days. I can't go for even a day without my school email, or I will have parents angry about not being able to reach me, so leaving it isn't an option. A colleague and I were talking about this, this morning. On his account, with no website and a recent cleanse of what he considered on essential emails he had 192M of info. To maintain my email I would have to get rid of my entire webpage in under 10 days, since the earliest I can go to get help is Tuesday.
Friday, February 29, 2008
new allotments on Abbynet
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Hi Kristi .. I totally understand .. I've been spending a fair bit of time deleting items on my Abbynet.
I can't speak officialy as I haven't asked anyone but I would assume that if you requested a little more time to migrate your website to a conference (which wouldn't count towards your space, I'm told), that you would get the time. I would suggest you not do anything drastic (such as deleting your website).
I agree that the video etc. portions of a website that make it interactive are of great value. I think we will either have to find more space or other solutions for hosting the video elements .. Feel free to email me or Shelley this weekend and we will try to get this smoothed out - again, we will do what we can to maintain the services required.
James
I am totally bummed out by the quotas. Even with the increase for TLN members, I am still frozen out of Abbynet. I wasn't able to get to the drop in session so now my website and email are completely useless. I don't feel 500 M is reasonable when even Gmail gives you 6400M for a free email account!!!!! I am very disappointed that more information about this did not come out sooner with better/clearer instructions or alternatives.
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