Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: The Cloud's Impact on Learning

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth Michelle Lentz michelle@write-‐tech.com @michellelentz Text “michellel” to 50500 via flickr user plusonetwo

• Instructional Designer, Trainer, Consultant • Wine blogger and columnist • Everything else? http://about.me/michelle.lentzA Li:le About Me …

If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then compu+ng may someday be organized as a public u+lity just as the telephone system is a public u9lity... -‐ John McCarthy, MIT Centennial, 1961 Flashing Forward

What is this Cloud?

What is Cloud CompuNng? via flickr user LauraJo

Reality: What the Cloud Really Looks Like

Reality: What the Cloud Really Looks Like via flickr user neospire

Everything Talks to the Cloud Via Infreemation

The Cloud Talks to Everything via mobileme

You’re Already Using the Cloud

•  Accessibility (any Nme, any place) •  PlaZorm independent! •  Cost eﬀecNve, especially when looking at applicaNons •  Environmentally friendly •  Freedom from desktop applicaNons •  Low maintenance / smaller on-‐site IT staﬀ •  CollaboraNon Cloud Advantages

•  Privacy? •  Security? •  Less control of data •  Support may not be as responsive as on-‐site IT crew •  New technology / corporate culture •  Providers or apps could be deadpooled •  Relying on the Internet Cloud Disadvantages

•  Content elasNcity •  Mobile •  Business intelligence Cross-‐FuncNonal Impact for Learning

•  PracNcal and social •  Real-‐Nme updaNng •  AuthenNc two-‐way conversaNons •  Learning opportuniNes for moments of need* •  Decreased costs ConsideraNons for Learning

Content Clouds & Self CuraNon CuraNon Tools Mindmap: h:p://www.mindmeister.com/55395228/content-‐curaNon-‐tools-‐the-‐newsmaster-‐toolkit-‐by-‐robin-‐good-‐2012 Image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts

Authoring in the Cloud

Guess what else is in the cloud?

Hosted (Cloud) vs HosNng (Enterprise) LMS: Where is Your Content?

Mobile and the Learning Experience: Apps!

Free Your Learning h:p://www.scorm.com/Nncan h:p://Nncanapi.com/2012/07/25/Nn-‐can-‐in-‐the-‐trenches/

•  Thank you for having me! •  Thanks to Clarity Consultants for sponsoring this and gekng me to NYC! My Thanks!

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Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: The Cloud's Impact on Learning

by Michelle Lentz on Aug 02, 2012

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