{"id":6608,"date":"2011-10-27T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2011-10-27T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:46:57","slug":"silver-linings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/10\/27\/silver-linings\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver linings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I have been using cloud techonolgy for a while without really realizing it. When this group first presented I asked my partner (the real techie in our family) what he knew about cloud computing, to get a better idea of what it was, and he didn\u2019t really have a clear idea what it was either but had heard about it.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>After going through the presentation (great presentation by the way and I like the activities) and blog posts I realized I\u2019d been using cloud technology for a long time.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I use WordPress, Google docs, gmail, glogster, sliderocket and probably others that I don\u2019t realize are cloud technologies. WordPress is my favourite as it literally took a huge load off of my back. However, I have encountered a few panic situations where our office Internet was down (it always seemed to happen on test days \u2013 hmmm. . . .).<span>\u00a0I was never worried about privacy because it was entirely links or activities for students that I had made. I didn&#8217;t feel like any hacker would gain a lot of information if they had a lesson plan on how to teach the past tense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As I pondered the silver lining to cloud technology \u00a0in school I felt data storage is both cost effective and good for your back. I really like the idea for school use, especially the technology that allows teachers to see what her students are doing on their screens.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I feel like it has many benefits for schools as others have mentioned: it\u2019s more cost effective, students\/teachers have more flexibility etc. but the one I haven\u2019t heard mentioned yet is knowledge building.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Students that can see their work from previous years as well as other student\u2019s work can keep building up that information to create something new and possibly different\/better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I am currently thinking about putting my students files on the cloud so I can access them from anywhere but am experiencing an internal battle between convenience and privacy for my students. After watching the video about Google storage systems I feel as someone had mentioned \u201cit would be easier to rob a bank,\u201d but I still have some doubts.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Anyone want to weigh in with this internal battle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using cloud techonolgy for a while without really realizing it. When this group first presented I asked my partner (the real techie in our family) what he knew about cloud computing, to get a better idea of what it was, and he didn\u2019t really have a clear idea what it was either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328739],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-08-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}