My cloud bio is much like many others here – I draw on google apps sparingly and have been storing documents in my gmail account since 2005. I’ve used Dropbox in a collaborative project I was working on, and it was really helpful there. I generally use cloud storage as a backup for my primary storage on my laptop and my external hard drive.<\/p>\n
I did my A1 on a cloud computing startup – ZeroDesktop<\/a> – that I think is a bit unique in this quickly-becoming saturated market. They’re unique in that they are specifically targeting the education and independent consumer markets… not businesses. Their core service, ZeroPC, is a virtual desktop; you sign in on any internet browser, and the user interface looks and acts as a desktop. They aren’t the only cloud computing company specifically targeting education; in my research, I also found schoolweblockers<\/a> (as in lockers, not blockers), for storing students’ homework assignments.<\/p>\n I found the ZeroPC service very interesting for a couple of reasons – the first is that it aims to provide full desktop services completely in the cloud. This is different from many cloud offerings that are supplementary to desktop computing. I also found it really interesting given the rise in tablets; this service makes tablets as fully functional as a personal computer. This can really improve access to computers for people who can’t afford desktops or laptops. As others have noted this week, services like ZeroPC adopted on a district wide level can radically reduce the district’s IT costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My cloud bio is much like many others here – I draw on google apps sparingly and have been storing documents in my gmail account since 2005. I’ve used Dropbox in a collaborative project I was working on, and it was really helpful there. I generally use cloud storage as a backup for my primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","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\/8697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}