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In our school there is no technical support for cloud services. Every teacher decide whats is best for their students.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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my computer has suffered a light spike, lost everything, today I was able to connect and participate in this course, which I love so much.
I've learned that we always have to save our files and not just use a computer!
Today I start my course and hope to contribute.
My luck and that some files I saved on DVD, old method and sent myself some documents.
In this system of information we need the computer the file in the clouds is always necessary.

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Teachers, IT department, and our director. We use some cloud services, but we have rules. ITunes U, google classroom and apple classroom (is new) are mandatory for all teachers (1st grade to 8th grade). Other applications that supports learning, teachers and students can choose. If student find a app to present or to make a video that he/she prefers they can use.

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In our school there is no technical support for cloud services. Every teacher decide whats is best for their students.

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How Cloud Computing can benefit education
In your case, who is involved in the discussions and decisions around Cloud services? Are technical people included? People from the pedagogical side? Who makes the final decision to go for Cloud services or not, and to choose one service over another? Do you feel all relevant aspects are taken into account?

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In my school, some classes use cloud technology because it requires their education program. Other students and teachers use cloud technology according to their wishes and needs.

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There are many pluses and little cons when discussing cloud services. Having said that decisions are only taken by a single person in the school. Having said that consultation if needed is done beforehand.

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There is no technical support for cloud services. Every teacher decide whats is best for their clas

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In mi school there is an animator digital,there is a platform of the school but it isn’ t used because the animator doesn’t give the password, has little services and little easy.

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I agree that the use of the cloud can be benefitial to put into practice other kind of activities and it can be also useful to implement co-operative study.

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Cloud computing can benefiti education if the students are prepared to use it. So, it's necessary that they use it with the presence of a teacher prepared.

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I suggested, as a Digital Animator, to the principal  in my school to use GSuite for education and we did it!

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teacher in my school use office 365 and dropbox. we had a lot of education about their use and we do not have any trouble with them. students also use them.

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Teachers choose themselves which cloud services they are going to use. They sometimes consult with me, but that's all. We don't have to ask for special approval.

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I think it is important to have cloud services in schools which has Internet connection because it is very useful way to save classroom activities and show examples which was prepared at home.

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In our school-system there is ‘Animatore digitale’ who is selected to promote the use of digital devices and services. He decides use of ICT cloud together to principal of the school.
For example, in my school we are already activated some application in Google and we have the opportunity to use Google Drive. No technical people are included in this type of decisions but teachers. Students are not incentivized to use clouds because they are not prepared for it in pedagogical sense.

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There isn't a cloud service in our school. Every teacher uses what seem to be most useful for ones needs. There aren't technical people in our school, final decision on use of any services must be taken by the headteacher, sometimes there's staff opinion needed

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Every teacher decides which cloud services will use, so we dont need
special approvals.

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In our school there is ‘Animatore digitale’ Who decide use of ICT cloud together to Chief of school.

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Principal for use or not cloud technology desition takes school's leader. Teachers and IT administrators can to rase the discussions it's need or not the cloud technology in school. In my schools where I work, no one use full cloud services.

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No one is responsible. In my school principal is trying to show as hot to better organize using cloud computing.

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Local government is trying to settle a debate with companies that offer this service to implement it, but nothing is implemented.

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There is no offical agreement for using cloud services. Teachers decide will they use it and for what purpose. School administration use cloud for saving important legal documents and important data. School principal decides and makes final decision.

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in our school no cloud computing. we will sugest in next meeting

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Every teacher by its own decides which cloud services he/she will use. For students that decision make ICT teacher. Decision about which school cloud services will be used by all teachers for collaboration make ICT teacher together with principle. We dont have technical people in our school who are involved into this kind of decisions.

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Teachers decide for themselfs what cloud would they use, for students final decision have teacher. We dont have technical people included.

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In my case, the school had already agree to run with 0365 before I had arrived. The decision was taking at higher management level but done so with the input of a pilot project for 1 year. Now that it is implemented, all teachers have recieved the most basic levels of training. This training comes from 2-3 teachers who are interested in 0365 but not experts or subject experts.

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Every teachers decide for himself will use cloud services or not. In our school teachers don't have tehnical support, there are no strategy for use Cloud, and nobody of them doesn't make a final decision to go for Cloud services or not.

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We don't really use cloud services in school.

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No cloud strategy in our school. Some teachers use it, mainly computer science teachers.

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In my school every teacher decide for himself will he use Cloud or not. We don't have any Cloud strategy and services.

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In our school we have a team of teachers who are receiving training on use cloud based applications and these teachers will then demonstrate how to use these applications within their subject departments. The school management have decided on what cloud based applications they want to use.

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no technical support, everything have to do CS teacher. but for choosing cloud, every teacher decide whats best for them

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In my school every teacher is by on self and each one for himself decide will he use cloud or not. There are not strategy for use cloud srevices.

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In my school

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In administration of the school it was easy to show or teach about cloud service.. But teachers are almost mission impossible to teach. But we teaching somehow. But when they leaving school they somehow forget's what they heard. And other day is from start everything. So to answer this theme's title question it is difficult to answer.

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The big changes are done by school administration, even if specialists suggest otherwise. So, technically ICT specialist must talk with all the teachers first, to help them understand and reduce stress while going through or preparing to changes. Cloud Computing is virtual thing, so you can't show it easily to other teachers or administration. Also, they are more lenient to changes if other schools are already using those technologies. Also, it is always easier to try new technologies if they are provided for free. Money in Lithuanian schools is big issue.

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At our school, people and administrators of technical services decide instead of people from the pedagogical side to discussions and decisions around Cloud services.

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We don't have any technical help. CS teacher and head master make decision to go for Cloud or not.

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Each teacher is autonomous to choose the tools and services. Neither the school nor the Ministry prescribes it. Our headmistress is making final decision. No man by himself can take all relevant aspects into account. We need more ICT professionals among our staff, and cooperation and collaboration.

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Most of our teachers don't use cloud. Our head master try to introduce some cloud services, but with little success.

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In  my school, the teachers decide if they should to use or not  the cloud services during the teaching. I think, sometimes, the teachers want to use the cloud services in the classroom but they have affraid to expose in front of students that they don't Know.

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Teachers should be autonomous in deciding is Cloud service necessary for them.

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In our school we use a platform with all the services of Microsoft. We share documents between teachers or with students via OneDrive.

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Each teacher is autonomous to choose the tools and services that best suit him. Neither the school nor the Ministry prescribes such a thing. The Ministry trains teachers how to use some tools, but teachers eventually choose their tools. I believe that the use of online tools and communication between teachers and students works well, as opposed to communication between teachers at all levels.
The Ministry, state agencies, school administrations and teachers have no common rules or raddomandation in online communication and resource sharing. Most teachers do not even know that they have an official e-mail address. Most employees in the Ministry and state agencies are hardly used e-mail and PP. Shared work on documents is reduced to the forwarding of Word documents with comments. With such an IT ignorance, we are happy that none of those instruct us what to do and how to do it.

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There is no requirement for using cloud services in our school and most teachers don't use it.  We have teams that should develop some plan, but things are going slowly.

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Every teacher in my school is free to use cloud services for teaching. We don't have any plan to switch to cloud officially. Maybe if there is more already made teaching materials some teachers would see their benefits and try to make some on their own.

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There is no requirement for using cloud services in our school and most teachers don't use it.

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It's a good way to be able use smart mobile devices at school in order to save data easily.

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The cloud service will make it easier for students to be able to use their devices even if they don't have data save capac

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In my school ICTgroup and manager are trying to introduce cloud services to teachers challenging the lack of connectivity.

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In our school, the management staff analyzed the proposal to introduce cloud services in teaching activities. We evaluated the feasibility from the technical point of view, the cost and the practical benefits. Teachers, however, are free to use or not the cloud.

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Teachers decide should they use cload services or not. It depends how teachers are familiarize with ICT. We have free office 365 for school , but not so many teachers use it in class... For me, every cloud services have it's own benefits...best way is to combine them...

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In an official way there is no any cloud service in our centre; we only use the Moddle platform just to make on-line courses. However there are some teachers who are appreciating the use of this new technologies to implement their daily work. Everything it depends on motivation and technololgical resources. Because if you are motivated but you haven´t got a good equipment, you can´t do anything.

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Most teachers dont use cloud service in my school. We have teams that should develop some plan, but things are going slowly. There is no motivations and interest from most of teachers

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First, thank you Nuha for the excellent presentation of the cloud system.
I am a big supporter of Office 365 and its services. At the stage is verification of this cloud office in our school. I'm looking forward to using applications such as ClassNotebook, Yammer, Planner, and so on. I hope my students will enjoy. I think most colleagues will accept the services of this system.

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Conditions for using cloud services are not good in my school, firstly because we have a slow connection. But many teachers try to use it thanks to the good support of our digital menthor with his team. They try to spread and stimulate teachers to use cloud computing in their daily school life.

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I motivated students to use office 365 (one drive and one note) because in school we have solid internet connection and students can't excuse they forgot books or paper notes. They are all the time online so why not learn and do homework online also. Our HM insists teachers school preliminaries should also be online so he could check it

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The decision of using cloud service depends on teacher and his/her abilitiy, support of school leadership, benefit are numerous from distributign learning materials up to online tests etc.

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In this region of Spain, the administration doesn't allow contract cloud services for students. Data bases on non-corporate servers are banned. Teachers have corporate tools like moodle, mahara, drupal, etc,  with own database.
However, lots of people use Google tools , and i have never seen any penalty

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In my school everyone decides whether he or she uses Cloud services or not. I high recommend it as the ICT-administrator, but I have no way to force them to use it.

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In my case I'm the only decider. I'm the "technical people" and really feel alone. My wish is that we could collaborate and unify the use of tools of the same use. Maybe this will come soon. Not all aspects are taken into account as we never have discussions.

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Conditions for using cloud services in our school are good, but only a few teachers are using it. Headmaster encourages this but cannot force anyone (at least yet).

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The school members who are involved in what exists are some teachers who together with some classes use these services, but it’s important for parents to fully support and understand a BYOD program to ensure its success.

Parent support for a BYOD program is crucial to its success. In addition to training staff and developing a comprehensive and consistent technology policy, principals, teachers and administrators must plan on how to involve parents in the process.

There are a number of websites such as Kahoot and Socrative allow teachers to conduct polls and surveys during presentations and use the responses immediately, increasing engagement and participation; full access to a huge amount of information and more easy ways to do the assessment.

BYOD requires a school to upgrade its network infrastructure to handle the increased demands for bandwidth.

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I agree that using cloud services can be of great benefit to education and I think that the more teachers learn about the applications, the more they will use them. We are just using Google Apps as an administration and communication tool at present but there is so much more we can use it for - it's very exciting! THe decision to use Google apps was made after long hours of research and deliberation and discussion with our ICT support, myself as ICT coordinator in the school and the Principal. It has been a voyage of discovery!

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In my view, it's the principal's decision to create an innovative environment for the entire school and introduce Cloud services in schools. A principal has to have a vision and understand the importance of implementing cloud technologies into the teaching and learning processes as soon as possible.
We have been using Office 365 for about 5 years. Of course, some of the teachers use cloud services very effectively. But there are some teachers for whom it is still difficult to get used to new technologies. The administration of the school encourage the teachers in different ways, organize trainings and workshops for them.

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I agree that there are great benefits from cloud computing in education (like mobility,cost, availability, collaboration, productivity..) but regarding my school we need to update ICT infrastructure first(cloud services/web browser require better hw than what we have at this moment), implement quality wifi networking (which we don't have yet), teach teachers and as mentioned in video to digitalize educational materials of other subjects. Cloud computing with BYOD would be nice combination. In the discussions and decisions would be included principal, technical people and we teachers.

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The use of the cloud system is an integral part of all the operators of my school, each of us is aware of the advantages that this system offers us

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3.4 How Cloud Computing can benefit education

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We can share, build documents in group without being together, have our own space and time to do it.
We have a teacher that is responsable for the clould and he give diferent privileges to the users. I thinks we should use it more, but the main decisions of its use is not mine to take.

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Using a cloud system is mostly left to a particular teacher's decision to use them. The lack of technical conditions of use (Wi-FI for BYOD) has not yet made the strategy and involvement of all important actors (headmaster, pedagogue, ICT developer, other teachers) in building awareness of the benefits of using the cloud system.

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Everyone is free to use cloud services or not during the teaching process. The headmaster cannot force teachers to use it because it's not defined (enforced) by the Ministry. Yet. We (me and the HM) are talking about it and trying to motivate the younger staff to use it even sporadically, while the "old school" staff is reluctant to do so. As we have no material funds to modernize the ICT infrastructure, I think that soon we'll start use cloud services more and more and very likely alongside with BYOD

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Our school is at the biginning with the implementation process G Suite for Education.

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Conditions for using clouds in our school are good. I have been using it for long time, but  just a few teachers  use it. STEM teacher should have it in their classes but it's all in the beginning.

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In my school the teachers no use the cloud in the classes. We have an office cloud service but used only from the school office.
I think use in the future some services for example GSuite for education with my students.

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In my school, everyone personally decides whether or not they will use cloud services. It is my own decision, but STEM teachers must use some cloud services like EDUtorij, for example 2 percent of their teaching.

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Financial opportunities are most important, and then teacher education and the adoption of a new plans and programs that must be approved by the Ministry of Education.
Informatics teachers do not have authority in this issue. They are just administrators and do much more than other teachers. They do not decide.

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The administation  decides about it for all the schools in our area but schools are free to use it or not, at least till this moment.
I don't know how they choose the provider but I thionk that there are teachers involved in the final deccission and that the budget is also taken into account.

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my school some years ago made the decision to move to the Cloud services for pedagogical purposes and the teachers implement it. We first started with G Suite. Before making a change, the school makes decisions, after careful evaluations

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We've formed an "e-Learning Team" (approx. 25 teachers) which gathers the most experienced in each trade/vocation. Their task is to be leaders, an example for the rest. Many things aren't sorted and organized, even at the top of hierarchy: permanent cloud data storage, sharing, ...They push and favor Microsoft products (contract !) compared to others, so...Too many "missing pieces in the puzzle", I'd say.

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On the beginning of this school year we made a team for involving ICT in school. The result of it should be the document which determinates using ICT in teaching and management in our school.

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For now there is no official cloud service at the school. The school members who are involved in what exists are some teachers who together with some classes use these services.

In the near future the use of some services is prespecified, for example Google for Education

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At here it is like... Try by yourself... If you succeed, we will think about it...maybe...

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To use cloud services in our school is optionally. All the teachers have educations about cloud services, and it is on they own if they want to integrate in theirs teaching plan or not.

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Cloud is not obligatory in my school. .Everyone of us decide whether to  use it or not.

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We have not used Cloud Computing yet. But I find it very useful and interesting!

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Everyone chooses wether they'll use cloud services or not. There is no obligation to use it.

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For now, in my school, everyone personally decides whether or not they will use cloud services.

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In my school we are going to discuss the possibility to officialy adopt mobile devices in education. I agree that going for Cloud is a challenging task. We have to consider technical aspects (we have 50 tablets but our WiFi connections is slow, thus we should invest a considerable amount of money to improve it) and also pedagogical aspects (i.e., young students are not aware of the risks and hazards of surfing the web, risks of misuse of the Cloud resources or worse, etc.). We don't have an official Cloud service at the moment. It is a possibility that we are going to discuss with an external expert that is in charge of managing our network.

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In Irish schools the decision to move to Cloud services is generally a pedagogical one and it is the teachers that implement it. We find that schools find it easier to get started with G Suite but often need professional support to get started with 365. Sometimes schools make uninformed decisions and select one cloud service over another without a proper evaluation.

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There is no offical agreement for using cloud services in our school and teachers use it as they need.  Teachers can decide will they use it and for what purpose.

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Schools in Greece exclusively used cloud services provided from
a) the  Greek Schools Network (emails, web hosting , moodle , e-classes , e-learning ..)
b) from the  Digital Educational Platform, of the Greek Ministry of
Education  which provide interactive books, Learning Objects repository and an integrated digital environment,  for learning, collaboration, communication and networking of all members of the school community.
But teachers, as individuals, are free to use, for their lessons only , any Cloud services they want , as long as they respect the personal data of their students .

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My school have a ict administrator on board responsabile for all process.

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Most teachers in my school don't use cloud services.

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In our school, if there is aninvestment in ICT, all of ICT teacher are involved in decision making. Maybe it is so because our principal is an ICT teacher too.

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Schools in Greece have a teacher's board. So whenever a proposal is made all teachers gather and say their opinion. Then they reach a decision unanimously or the majority of them.

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There is no offical agreement for using cloud services in our school and teachers use it as they need.

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There is no official agreement in my school which cloud service to use. I really do not know if any teachers are using cloude services.

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Most teachers in my school don't use cloud services. Teachers decide what will they use.

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For now we do not have a common decision at the school level about using cloud services. Teachers decide on their use depending on their own knowledge and abilities. I think it would be good to have a common decision on the use of some service

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There is no official requirement for using cloud services in our school. Teachers can decide will they use it and for what purpose.