The Google Cloud EDTEC 572

History & Overview Cloud Computing Grid Computing Parallel Computing Distributed Computing Ubiquitous Computing Mobil phon e Web 2.0- enabled PCs, TVs, etc. Busines ses, from startups to enterpri ses PDAPDA 2

Key Features Reliability Multi-tenancy Agility Security Scalability Cost & Device Electronic Recycling Application Programming Interface 3

Cloud Learning »A shared pool of learning courses, digital assets and resources are provided to learners and instructors, via computers and other devices on-demand, similar to a public utility - you can plug into it from anywhere 4

CL: Characteristics Storage & Share Universal Accessibility Collaborative Interaction Learner Centered 5

Watch a Video of Cloud Learning 6

Cases & Samples IBM Amazon Google Microsoft Blue Cloud: 15 Nov 2007, IBM wants some of that Web 2.0 mojo. That is what is behind its announcement today of Blue Cloud, a set of “cloud computing” offerings that will be available to its corporate customers in the first quarter of EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.computer applications App Engine: Offers users the ability to build and host web applications on Google's infrastructure. Windows Azure : The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud computing pleatform that lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs. 7

Google Cloud User Centric  Data stored in the “Cloud”  Data follows you & your devices  Data accessible anywhere  Data can be shared with others music preferences maps news contacts messages mailing lists photo s calendar phone numbers investments 8

Why Google? Easy to use Extensive tools –Google Drive –Blogger for sharing –GoogleDocs for collaboration –GoogleSites for easy web authoring and publishing sites –Google Forms for research –Google Hangout for online meetings

Expand Your Own Knowledge with RSS Feeds RSS feeds link to blog sites –News, Sports, Cooking, Edtec, Education, etc. Some popular education feeds: – Explore and add to your page Organize your feeds under tabs to locate topics quickly

Explore Google Drive Drive.google.com

A 572 Project that teaches Google Docs usinggoogledocspart2 A video on Google Docs: – The online video showing how to manage files and foldersonline video showing how to manage files and folders – s/Jing/media/6b84e59a-d f72- 07b066fa39e5

More Videos Opening up Google Docs: Google Docs interface: Managing files and folders: Uploading to Google Docs: Creating Google Docs: Sharing Google Docs: Accessing a shared Google Doc: Collaborating/Commenting on a Google Doc:

Google Forms For Research…  Create a survey using Google forms  Collect data  Google forms will analyze the results for you  Preliminary analysis of course  Digital landscape survey: Digital landscape survey  Secret word: will be given in class

This is how…  Create a new "Form" from Google Form  it, or post it to a website to have people take it.  When people answer the form (survey), it automatically fills out the answers on the Googledocs spreadsheet for you.  You can edit, analyze, and administer the form through the "form" menu in Googledocs.

Comparison Chart of various online communication tools

Finally, Tip or Trick of the Week Each week, look for something fun or interesting in this section! Bookr is an online book creator that uses Flickr photos. It’s part of the Flickr toys division. Some examples: – – 080http:// 080