In week 9 we discussed social tools and cloud computing. Many people today are familiar with social sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. We also learned about social bookmarking sites like Delicious. All of these sites are meant to connect people and make communication easier. A part of our homework included learning about cloud computing and creating a Google Doc. Cloud computing is a new way of creating and saving documents. Like the video Google Docs in Plain English explains, documents can now be saved on the internet instead of a home computer. This makes it easier and still secure for people to share documents. It also allows people to not only view a document, but edit it too. And everyone can see the changes that were made.
Social networking sites can be used to connect classrooms to other classrooms from around the world. This form of learning is becoming increasingly popular. Social bookmarking sites would be good for educators to share the resources that they have found among their colleagues. In the same way that sharing bookmarks is convenient, sharing documents like lesson plans or spreadsheets with grades among colleagues is too.
This image is a cartoon that explains all the uses for cloud computing. It really is a very convenient tool to use.
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