Ed in the Cloud: a snapshot of cloud-based tools for education
1. Ed in the Cloud
A snapshot of cloud-based tools and how they can be used
to improve efficiency and communication within education
Photo by Okinawa Soba on Flickr
Terese Bird
Learning Technologist & SCORE Research Fellow
For Colleges-University of Leicester Network 29 Nov 2012
www.le.ac.uk
2. What shall we talk about?
• What is ‘the cloud’? Photo by paigebuilt on Flickr
• What the risks?
• Example tools
8. Microsoft and Apple
• Skydrive – free
• Sharepoint – not free, very handy
• Office 360
• iCloud – share stuff across devices right into the
applications