Google Apps is free for schools and has no ads. It allows students and teachers to create documents(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), share calendars, email, chat, create web pages and more. It is secure as everything stays within the registered domain and cannot be accessed by people who do not have a school login. It is an excellent tool to provide elearning. It works on any computer including Macs.

1. Google Apps & Cloud Computing By: Roger Nevin This presentation is posted at schoolinfo.ca/cloud

7. Teacher Comments

9. However...... Despite the successes we experienced using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, there were still technological challenges in the school.

10. What do you do if..... Jason arrives to school with his World Issues ISU essay on a USB key. He tries to open it at school but is unable to because his word processor at home is incompatible with the school's word processor. His ISU essay is due in 20 minutes and Jason can't get home... WHAT DO YOU DO?

11. What do you do if..... Maria creates a presentation for her Law class on a Macintosh computer at home. Unfortunately all the computers at the school are PCs and she is unable to show her presentation. WHAT DO YOU DO?

12. What do you do if..... You have assigned a group presentation in your ENG 4U1 class. In one group, three students have part-time jobs, two students are on the Rugby team and one student is trying to earn their 40 community hours. They are unable to get together after school to work on the group project due to their incompatible calendars. WHAT DO YOU DO?

13. What do you do if..... You are teaching a grade 12 History course and the final June essays are due. One of your students comes to you and says that his computer crashed and he lost all his work. He's not sure when he will be able to submit the paper. WHAT DO YOU DO?

14. What do you do if..... You have asked your Grade 10 Science class to do their class presentations using Power Point. Three students in your class tell you they are unable to do this assignment because they do not have this program on their home computers and there is a limited number of school computers with Power Point due to the licensing fees? WHAT DO YOU DO?

19. Solution???

20. Cloud Computing Could be the Answer to your Problems

23. Cloud Computing Data, Programs, Communication Tools .... all in the cloud

24. Cloud Computing Accessed by any computer or PDA through an Internet connection

26. Cloud Computing Quotes Obama’s new Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra "I’m all about the cloud computing" Discussion on why the city of Washington DC changed to Google Apps “were able to solve that problem for half a million dollars what would have cost ... $4 million"

27. Cloud Computing Quotes "Frantic troubleshooting by an overworked staff versus someone else fixing problems smoothly. A sliver of server space per person versus a five-gigabyte chunk. Half a million dollars versus free. That's what colleges are faced with as they decide whether to continue running their own e-mail services or outsource them to a professional service like Google Apps Education Edition" Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/11/2008

28. Cloud Computing Quotes "We can provide IT resources less expensively by thinking differently about the way we use the Internet. Providing access to computing resources by using the Internet is called computing in the cloud" "Cloud resources provide additional ways in which we can think differently in these difficult financial times. It is crucial to use these technologies as we look to the future." David Smallen , vice president Information technology- Hamilton College

29. Cloud Computing Quotes " The school dumped its own e-mail program in exchange for Google Apps in 2007 .. it freed us up to concentrate on classroom applications" Kevin Roberts, chief information officer Abilene Christian University

30. Cloud Computing Quotes

32. Google Apps used in thousands of schools by millions of students New South Wales Department of Education (1.3 M Students) New York City Intermediate School 339 Lutheran High School Columbia Secondary School University of Southern California Arizona State University Vanderbilt University George Washington University Trinity College Dublin Besant Hill School Lakehead University Northwestern University University of North Carolina Cornell University d

38. Student's Opinion of Google Apps

46. Google Apps- Quote "Everyone saw the benefits of sharing notes, lesson plans, meeting minutes, and updates on kids more easily than ever before. We became unified as a team even before we moved the functionality into our classrooms." Jason Levy, Principal, New York City Intermediate School 339

55. Portability & Cloud Computing

56. Portability & Cloud Computing