bringing the cloud down to earth: the cloud's impact on learning
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Presented to ASTD NY chapter, Aug 1, 2012. Focuses on intro to the cloud and it's affect on learning and development.TRANSCRIPT
Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Michelle Lentz michelle@write-‐tech.com
@michellelentz Text “michellel” to 50500
via flickr user plusonetwo
A Li:le About Me …
• Instructional Designer, Trainer, Consultant • Wine blogger and columnist • Everything else? http://about.me/michelle.lentz
Flashing Forward
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
Cloud Advantages
• 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 Disadvantages
• 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
ConsideraNons for Learning
• PracNcal and social • Real-‐Nme updaNng • AuthenNc two-‐way conversaNons • Learning opportuniNes for moments of need*
• Decreased costs
Content Clouds & Self CuraNon Image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts
CuraNon Tools Mindmap: h:p://www.mindmeister.com/55395228/content-‐curaNon-‐tools-‐the-‐newsmaster-‐toolkit-‐by-‐robin-‐good-‐2012
Free Your Learning h:p://www.scorm.com/Nncan h:p://Nncanapi.com/2012/07/25/Nn-‐can-‐in-‐the-‐trenches/
My Thanks!
• Thank you for having me! • Thanks to Clarity Consultants for sponsoring this and gekng me to NYC!