Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Google Apps for Education
At our last Heritage Technology Committee meeting we discussed Google Apps and it's advantages over just a regular Google account and how having such an account set-up through-out our district could have an impact on student learning. Giving students an identifiable and professional email account is one advantage. Having a central location with 10GB of storage space for each student is another clear advantage. If you are familiar with Google Apps (versus just a regular Google account) and you would like to comment on what you see as advantages/disadvantages for all LPS students having a Google Apps account, please do so here. If you would like to participate in the pilot program for Google Apps, see Heidi Dudley.
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The Cloud gives control to people on their documents/work etc, it makes them publishers/authors/broadcasters etc. A spin of sharing and collaborative working added to the mix and we have what I call as the Cloud Learning environment. Here the control is shared between the learner and the facilitator or the academics .
This is new, as the old institutional VLE (or virtual learning environments, kept most of the control with the institutions or the academics) and the PLEs (personal learning environments) did not quite provide a cohesive platform to bring different people together form different walks of life uniformly.
To read more about a CLE, see http://edublend.blogspot.com/2009/12/cloud-learning-environment-what-it-is.html
An Example of that is my Exam revision site that taps into the students informal learning experience/practice. I blogged about it here
http://edublend.blogspot.com/2009/12/examopedia-re-birth-on-google-sites.html
And the resources is an Open access resource that can be accessed here:
http://sites.google.com/a/port.ac.uk/examopedia/
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