Our school district is piloting Google Apps in Education. It's a natural fit to use Google with the Netbooks. "Working in the cloud" is a term that I am hearing everywhere- TV commercials, educational journals, blogs and so on. The Netbooks are the perfect machine for cloud computing. Jolicloud makes it easier. There are numerous apps offered through Jolicloud that may be added to the Netbooks. Management could be an issue, but with Ubuntu you are able to sync an App change. Make that change on one machine and when the others log in the next time, they just need to run their sync for the App to show. The icons make locating items an easy task.
With any pilot program, your main job is to find out what works and what doesn't. Often times human error can ruin an otherwise great idea. I created a Google document to share with the class with a list of instructions. By following the directions, students would review the basics of word processing. Thing is, I forgot to share the document properly. Now that I have, I will be eager to read student responses.
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Hey Jeanne,
ReplyDeleteIf your interested in using the cloud for your classroom environment, you might want to check out my company, novachi.com. We are a completely free web 2.0 SIS, SMS, SES, and SLS bundled all into one. We will also be attending the FETC 2011 in Orlando Florida, so if you would like to check us out, we'll be at booth #1258.
Thanks,
Jon Nemeth
jnemeth@novachi.org