Second Life program on cloud computing available
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 07:36AM For the easily amused or terminally bored...
http://business.treet.tv/shows/istetalks/episodes/cloud-computing
Peggy Sheehy was a great host and Dawn Shrum of ISTE was a real confidence builder as a producer. If you get the chance to participate as either a presenter or attendee at a SecondLife event, do so. I've put some slides (with bullet points, sorry) up on slideshare here. This presentation was based on “Computing in the Clouds” Leading & Learning, Dec/Jan 2009/10.
Side benefit: I have a new ISTE t-shirt that is long enough that I no longer have bare midriff in SL.
Oh, this week our district tech committee endorsed going forward with giving all K-12 students access to GoogleApps for Education. Secondary students will go live this spring; elementary next fall. Elementary will start without e-mail, but that is not a firm decision. Chat, Groups and Video will not be available for either age level to begin with either.
Interesting comments from our high school students on the committee. When the Apps discussion was taking place, NEITHER student wanted e-mail - but for different reasons. The young man said he already had 4 or 5 Gmail accounts to keep track of now and didn't want another one; the young woman said she never uses e-mail, preferring to text or use Facebook. The group as a whole, however, thought e-mail access was needed for students since both businesses and post-secondary schools rely on it.
Reader Comments (2)
The students' thoughts on email is interesting. I'm a middle school librarian and have my own 13-yr-old at home. The students, including my daughter, have their own laptops and email accounts, but getting them to read their email is always a challenge. They don't love it and would much rather be texting or on FB. Email must be seen as one of those fuddy-duddy tools that grownups use when they can't text. The other thing they won't use is a regular landline phone! If someone doesn't have a cell phone, they are persona non grata. Heaven forbid you should call someone's house and have to talk to a parent!
Hi Cheri,
I think this view of e-mail is growing. I guess it has always been that if adults do it, it must not be cool. Our two youngest (now in their mid twenties) have never had a land line.
Thanks for the comment,
Doug