Why Cloud Services in School? by EUN Partnership aisbl

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-12-12 13:53:48 UTC

Francesca, Italy

francesca_lombardi1973 — 2016-12-12 14:13:30 UTC

As with any innovation, I think also cloud computing should be rigorously evaluated before its widespread adoption. In my opinion the main challenges in the integration of Cloud in schools are: lack of trust in data security and privacy by users and a sort of cultural resistance from many teachers to share data and change traditional ways of working.

Rosa/Italy

rosadilonardo — 2016-12-12 14:23:11 UTC

In my opinion we can use cloud services for sharing and storing pictures, text, video, for example with Instagram and other applications. We can use Google apps and other applications to work collaboratively on documents and we can also use cloud services to build your own IT infrastructure.

Robert, Belgium

2016-12-12 15:04:45 UTC

As an Microsoft Innovative Education Expert I am using OFF365 in my school. Also the fact that the teacher stays the owner of his materials, unlike Google claims the co-ownership when using Google cloudservices.
Both Google and Microsoft are evaluating and upgrading their apps on a regular base to improve their cloudservices.

Koldo, Spain

koldo — 2016-12-12 16:23:58 UTC

I think right now there is not another option but migrate to the cloud. The digital world is there, and if a VET school want to train the new professionals to do their job in the companies, it’s a basic strategy to adopt the trends that are spreading through the companies.

The main challenge we have is the students and teachers training and the second one the safety. As always the weak link are the persons. We are around 140 teachers and every year the 20% of them can be different. Most of our students are in the school for 53 weeks but some of them just for a few weeks. So we have to think about formulas to offer the training all of them need. The second challenge is the safety, students and teachers are not very aware of the risks in the digital world; we have policies for the use of digital services but you need to be pushing once and again.

Bijan, Bangladesh

bijanc — 2016-12-12 18:09:23 UTC

In my area, till now, we are not using cloud services for direct teaching-learning purpose. But we are applying e-Primary School system using server of head office of Bangladesh primary education. In this system, every focal teacher is responsible to enter students educational data ( different exam performance, attendance etc.) into the system. After entering data, e-Primary system's auto-generated reporting system develop report instantly. It has opportunity to see the data every department of primary education system ( school to country head office). This report helps school authority and the system to understand what is going well and which areas need to be improved as well as it also helps them to develop performance improvement action plan for locally and nationally. Besides this teacher are developing digital content and sharing this contents into the web-based teachers portal. Through this portal, teacher can collect content by downloading any time and any where from the country and use it for his/ her classroom activity. Our main challenges, till now we are unable to ensure adequate bandwidth all over country, capacity building of all the teachers equally. It will take time but we are trying heart and soul to cover ASAP.

Emiliana, Italy

mydigitalclass1 — 2016-12-12 18:28:50 UTC

The main challenge is technical: teachers must understand how to use the cloud. It is not so easy at it seems. Teachers must understand the improvement communication may have by using the cloud. The possibility to have everything you need for your job everywhere, at anytime on any device.

The main challenge is also created by organization: the administrator of the cloud must be on the very forefront, he must do, think and know anything to get the project start and develop. Once everyone has understood how to use the cloud and the administrator has developed it, the cloud could innovate schools.

Conchi Fernández , Spain

cfdezmunin — 2016-12-12 18:29:45 UTC

The main challenge to integrate services in the cloud is the connectivity of computer equipment. It is necessary to have a good internet signal to ensure the entry and exit in the cloud and to be able to share its content.

Costas Moschonas

2016-12-12 18:50:03 UTC

I think that the main challenge is security and private data. I do not like critical information be exposed to the public.

Fernando Coelho, Portugal

fernando_coelho — 2016-12-12 18:56:58 UTC

Integrating cloud services in school give us some problems. Mostly the work that we needed to migrate all te account and integrate services with our Acrive Directory.
But Google Apps is a must have on all campus, it gives access to a all new world of colaborative work.
Also we use it lot to reduce disk space with the google Drive.
Another kind of service are cloud backup services, but here, rely the question of privacy, encripted data and availability of the data when we want to restore them, but, for now everything is working good. The connectivity is not a problem because the speed of Internet connection is constant in Portugal (public schools) .
One of the small problem we had is that we needed to teach all teachers to use the cloud services...

Silvana Romio, Italy

silvana_romio — 2016-12-12 19:21:29 UTC

The use of external serviced as cloud is not too much used in my school. Some departments have decided to use Dropbox to share their materials with the students. I use G-Drive with some colleagues for collaborative work and the electronic registry that is mandatory in my school share materials with my students (e.g., lesson notes). However, in my opinion the main challenge is to change our approach that is, trying to collaborate more with our colleagues and be less afraid of sharing ideas.

Ken W - Northants, UK

kitkatninja78 — 2016-12-12 19:27:16 UTC

Internet connectivity... While we do have a 200mbit line on our main site and (up to) 80mbit at our other sites... There have been times when our connection drops to 40mbits on our main site, added to the fact that we have about 1400 users there and on our other sites the connection is not 100% guaranteed... This makes accessing our services & data painful.

Imogen, Cor

imogen1 — 2016-12-12 19:38:56 UTC

I think the main challenge we will have is budget. It should now be possible to get a connection that will allow the required speed but we have to provide adequately fast Wifi before cloud platforms become possible, and we may need to try to fund some access devices (eg Chromebooks). Also there will be work involved in administering these adult education classes and the time for this (creating access for GAFE etc.) will have to be funded or a volunteer found. It would also be important to evaluate Microsoft Cloud although I think GAFE is preferable for ease of use.
My own experience of using cloud tools with students: Dropbox. Don't. They all get confused and delete each other's work by accident. GAFE - excellent. Prezi - makes some people motion sick but a nice break from PowerPoint. Edmodo - excellent especially for younger kids. Padlet - falls over a lot. So build an alternative in your lesson plan. But most of these are free! Isn't that wonderful?

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2016-12-12 20:20:49 UTC

The use of Cloud Services promotes networking, cooperative learning, collaboration and sharing. I usually use Google Drive, Edmodo and Padlet Walls.

Flavia, Italy

2016-12-12 21:30:10 UTC

In my experience one of the main challenges is teachers training. In my school we are implementing G Suite right now and for some of my collegues it is difficult to think, for example, that a "virtual pen drive" is as reliable as a physical one. And by far more flexible, useful, eclectic....It is also a key to many other webtools, like the ones mentioned in Teresita's video. However, I think that teachers mustn't be cowed by too much technology at a time. There are some simple webtools that are very easy to use and videotutorials on how to do it!

Victoria. Spain.

vacasvictoria — 2016-12-12 21:31:03 UTC

I often use Cloud Service to share documents, photo.... with my patners, I also make presentations to my parents meetings in google drive.
I am working in a project called eScholarium which is situated in the Moodle. We have had to do a lot of courses about ICT. My great discovery was Google Drive, I do not need pens drive more, because I have all my works in this place, It is fantastic!
My challenge is to show my pupils this discovery, but they are in Primary School, I am afraid of doing a email to them, because their parents maybe not to agree with me.

Jarle Osmund Vågen

jarleosmund — 2016-12-12 21:36:08 UTC

Our school use Office 365, the main challenge is the training of students and teachers, to get them used to new ways to work in teams. We have also, a few times, seen how vulnerable use of the cloud services are when network is not 100%.

Lucia, Italy

2016-12-12 22:08:07 UTC

One of the challenges is the fact that a single cloud service will not serve all purposes. The school administration has to interact with the Ministry intranet (is it an intranet? Certainly it is heavily protected and not accessible to the public). Then there is the electronic register, which is just going to be bought (outsourced) from a company. After that, there is the school site, which is hosted somewhere (a different company). Finally there are services that are of the "Software as a Service" type: some of us are using the Edmodo platform for digital classrooms. Despite this wealth of different services, we are still using an old physical intranet with its own authentication credentials. This is where we may access the school modules or old training (Professional Development) materials that have been shared in dedicated folders.
This situation is difficult to understand for teachers who find it difficult even to write a mail!

Claudia, Ecuador

2016-12-13 03:02:56 UTC

I have visited a school that recently implemented Google Classroom. The ICT administrator told me that teachers felt reluctant to use the platform at the beginning as well parents. In addition, controlling students' access was another challenge because they did not check their assigments or access the platform very late at night.

Jenny, Slovenia

denip — 2016-12-13 09:11:33 UTC

In our school we are using the community cloud based on Synology platform and software and is intended to teachers and other employers for storing and sharing documents. We decided to build our own cloud which is not reachable from outside. We use confidential information’s and data and we don’t trust to external clouds built on servers that are maybe not even in Europe. This solution has proved to be good for our needs. For students we use learning management system based on Moodle. The application is running on external virtual server managed by us. We can also use cloud services offered by the public organization, founded by the government for storing the documents and archiving. We don't agree the Google cloud is the right option for the school needs. We have great responsibility regarding the private security of data we are handling. Is not acceptable that the data are stored on Google servers not even in exchange for free use. Let's get real, nothing is free.

thomas, austria,

2016-12-13 11:30:20 UTC

especially teachers do not have the necessary skills that it would take to adopt at a faster pace. it can and will take several years until a majority is convinced of the advantage of using cloud services.
as we use linux only on school devices it is often a challenge, that some software is not supported accordingly. e.g for prezi you need flash and that can be a problem.
for "typewriting" we use a clould service that also relies on flash. google chrome will not support that any longer - this will be a challange in the future.
also some school book publishers that add some extras on the web are using e.g. silverlight or other proprietary stuff, which is challenging.

Marilena, Italy

marilena_baci33 — 2016-12-13 15:26:47 UTC

I think there are different challenges when integrating cloud services in my school. First of all, wifi connection. The internet signal is still too slow to ensure the right access to the cloud. Moreover the lack of sufficient devices makes difficult a proper organisation with the use of cloud services for the major part of the classrooms. last, but not least, the fact that a good part of teachers need to be trained and guided to the use of this service.

Alessandra, Italy

alessandra_marini1 — 2016-12-13 19:49:57 UTC

This video was really interesting.. I didn't know all the applications presented.... In my school the only cloud service used is the one for the electronic register.... I'd really like working with new instruments like the ones presented, but I think that it won't be possible soon as a lot of my colleagues aren't so inclined in using technology

Giuseppe, Italy

profgcorsaro — 2016-12-13 21:26:07 UTC

I use always some Google apps and other cloud services but only in my classrooìoms

Annalisa, Italy

adipierro — 2016-12-13 21:54:12 UTC

I use GAFE in my teaching but also all the softwares presented in the video and many others more, students enjoy a lot working by them, the problem is with my colleagues, some of them are very resistant to use apps or GAFE in their teaching.

Ivan, Ire

ivanomahony — 2016-12-13 23:05:23 UTC

Ivan

ivanomahony — 2016-12-13 23:05:24 UTC

Aligning appropriately in terms of pedagogy for staff as opposed to a tool in the classroom. Aside from this reliable WiFi remains the biggest challenge encountered

Milan / CZ

mtal — 2016-12-14 11:25:02 UTC

Most challenging is reliable WiFi when more people use it. Next is then data privacy and sustainability of used services (will be the cloud service to use next year too?)

Domenico, Italy

2016-12-14 14:03:35 UTC

As soon as my little students will be autonomous in reading and in the organization of their work, I will use these certain applications of their value in teaching-learning processes.

Peter, Ireland

pjbarry — 2016-12-14 15:47:41 UTC

Student data should be managed by the school admin function. All that is needed to facilitate a student using google classroom or EDMODO is an email address. If you use the compliance system in Gsuite and monitor the student use it provides strong protection. Also you can restrict student accounts for internal use and provide a whitelist of acceptable external domains, Padlet, EDMODO, Khan etc. No student data need be processed between students and /or teachers on Gsuite and thus we stay private. The Admin function can be run on a school server and not integrate or interface with GSuite. You provison GSuite from uploading CSV files and we do this annually for new entrants of approx 150 students. It takes about 1 hour once you have the input data on CSV which can be downloaded from the school admin function.but not interfaced through an API or from the LDAP system.

Antonio, Córdoba, Spain

antonio27 — 2016-12-14 17:27:04 UTC

First, the signal speed for the internet connection. Then, "time to change the mind" ;) because some
teachers do not have the necessary skills. Fortunately, in our school, most of them are working about this because the have seen it's very useful but this will take some time to get it.

Ana, Zaragoza, Spain

deptecinfo — 2016-12-14 20:34:09 UTC

I think there are several challenges:

- It makes us absolutely dependent on the Internet connection. This connection is getting better, specially with fiber connection, but for example, in computers using wifi sometimes is not so good.
- When they use documents in collaborative way, they have to be aware about revision historial, because they get confuse when there are some people using the same document.
- It is more simple if there are a group of teachers using the same tools, because the learning time decreases for each subject, and students take profit of what they learned with the same tool in different subjects.
- Some cloud tools appear and disappear (for example titanpad, dipity, etc...) with the problem of materials created in them that you can't export. Again, when you externalize a service, you become more vulnerable.

Trevor, Ireland

2016-12-14 21:01:45 UTC

I think the main challenge is getting staff to try something new. It can take a while to get comfortable with a new application so getting a chance to see what the uses are and having an opportunity for training is key.

Gorky Angeles Villalba / Lima-Perú

2016-12-14 21:36:48 UTC

The main technical challenge for integrating external services (Cloud) in school is that we need an upgrade to Internet bandwidth and the other challenge is to train teachers in the use of services in the cloud.

Tim Gayton - Sweden

timgayton — 2016-12-15 05:14:39 UTC

Good internet - now have 1GB fiber - less is problematic.
Enough devices for students and staff to be able easily to be online when needed.
Ignorance - both staff and students.
Interest - conservatism.

Giusi, Italy

giusiveca — 2016-12-15 16:05:00 UTC

A really interesting and clear video!!!
In my school the only cloud service used is the one for the electronic register. I'd really like working with new instruments like the ones presented, but I think that it won't be possible soon as a lot of my colleagues aren't so inclined in using technology.Just today they finally installed the LIM in my class this year and have implemented the wifi network. I hope that soon I will be able to use the opportunities of cloud service !!!

Miroslava, Serbia

2016-12-15 19:07:00 UTC

In my experience one of the main challenges is teachers training. And also is getting staff to try something new. It can take a while to get comfortable with a new application so getting a chance to see what the uses are and having an opportunity for training is key.

Nurcan Değerli, Turkey

2016-12-16 18:02:10 UTC

I use Edmodo for my classes. I store files there and my students can reach them easily.

José María Díaz, Spain

josemaria_diazfuentes — 2016-12-16 18:56:36 UTC

I use Dropbox, Prezi, and Padlet but I will study the possibilities of thinglink, Edmodo, Google aplications and Storify.
Thank you Teresita, I loved that worksheet shared and worked by students, it's a great idea.
With my older boys there is no problem but sometimes the parents of the younger ones put difficulties in the use of the children in the network.

Alexandros, Greece

ale3andro — 2016-12-16 21:26:10 UTC

For me the biggest challenge is the internet connection speed and the connection availability. You can plan a lesson with cloud tools and end up in a day with very limited or no internet connection at all

Ispir Iuliana-Florentina

ispiriuliana — 2016-12-17 15:47:12 UTC

Romania
I used padlet and google for some collaborative activities between adults - teachers. Not for working with children.

Maria Panou/ Kalymnos, Greece

maria_themelis — 2016-12-17 15:59:56 UTC

I agree with Alexandros, it's very nice to have availability and plan a lesson with cloud tools and opportunity to end up in a day wth very limited or no internet connection at all!

M.Cristina, Italy

cristinag — 2016-12-17 17:28:01 UTC

I use Google Drive, Dropbox, Padlet, thinglink.
I used Edmodo but I dislike it.

Cesare Maramici

2016-12-17 20:30:38 UTC

Moodle a CMS, open source does exactly what Teresita illustrated in her video. You could check the activities of your students,
you could create lessons, change of material , the students could communicate with their teacher and so on.
The main difference is that you are the administrator, you can adapt your environment to your need.

Stefanos, Greece

smerliao — 2016-12-17 21:22:08 UTC

Like the other teachers from Greece, I would also like to point out the challenge of internet connection!

Gergana Petrova, Bulgaria

2016-12-17 22:23:39 UTC

Cloud Technologies are very important in educational process. They provaid collaborative space for students and they can reach their resources from each device - tablet, smartphone, PC, laptop.

Clara Elizabeth Báez, Italy

2016-12-17 22:41:20 UTC

The most significant cloud computing benefit is the cost saving. I think that the challenge is , like Carmen Aldama said, to involve teachers and families, to have internet connection. Intergratingn external services in our infrastucture should give to everyone the possibility to shar documents, to work collaboratively, to organize the own class and to communicate.

Kondylo Glarou/Greece

seagullitsa — 2016-12-17 23:25:32 UTC

Cloud Services are important in school because facilitates collaboration between students and teachers. Students can share and store material and prepare presentations but they are exposed to the public. Excellent services for European projects.

emma giurlani

egiurlani — 2016-12-18 08:11:32 UTC

I normally use all the apps presented in the video above . I didn't appreciated Edmdo very much . I prefer
google classroom with all the apps offered by google for education. I use also Socrative and of course the eTwinning platform where you can embed all the applications mentioned above and interact and collaborate with students, teachers and parents as well. At school the big challenge is to have a proper and well functioning internet connection. Privacy is also an other challenge if you want to get the work of your pupils to be known by a wide audience

Luís Figueiredo, Portugal

2016-12-18 11:01:22 UTC

The main challenge in my school is to change minds. Leave the blackboard and the paper to use the computer and cloud services is the main challenge to my colleagues at school. How can transform this reality? Is the main question than steel i have.

Esther, Spain

2016-12-18 18:42:51 UTC

Obviously there are a lot of good reasons to integrate cloud computing in the school. I think that first of all we have to design how are we going to do that. We need to establish a plan.

We have to review the network infrastructure and make any necessary improvements (if needed) to support all the connections.

Then we have to explain and train teachers (according to their skills level).

Some of them will see this as an opportunity to improve their classes. Others, will see it as something that would complicate too much classes. We are afraid to innovate when we are not familiar with tools. So I think that training and the further support are fundamental so that the teachers are not discouraged with the use.

The next step would be to adapt the schedules to the new work tools

And finally start working with cloud computing services in our classes.

Evgenia, Greece

2016-12-18 18:45:28 UTC

The benefits deriving from using Google Services in School are: a) lower cost, b) enhancing social skills, learning skills, digital learning skills.

Pepe López, España

njlopezg — 2016-12-19 17:38:20 UTC

The main challenge in my school is the students' laptops. These laptops are obsolete and we usually have many problems with them. Students can not work quickly. In addition, operating systems (windows xp) can not be updated, so every day we have more compatibility problems with different apps and digital tools. On the other hand, our computering classroom has 12 old computers (also with windows xp) that don't allow us to work easily.

Elisabetta, Italy

betta_giannossi — 2016-12-19 19:00:42 UTC

I use GAFE in my teaching but the very problem is with my colleagues: their very resistant to use apps or GAFE in their teaching.

Dimitris, Peiraias-Greece

dagelidakis — 2016-12-19 23:09:30 UTC

I believe that the use of cloud services implements the collaborative learning and the communication between the students. The major problem is that the teachers have not enough knowledge about these technologies and so it is difficult to adopt these educational techniques.

Preeti,Sweden

preetivij — 2016-12-20 08:53:39 UTC

Cloud computing is useful and easy to collaborate with colleagues as well as students, students learn new digital skills about using ICT while doing assignments. It is available whenever and wherever.

Toby Oyugi

koyugibft — 2016-12-22 09:09:00 UTC

Internet speeds are poor and management of the various devices that are brought to school are major challenges. The benefits though outweigh the disadvantages. Collaborative learning and flipped classroom is made possible.

Florian

flobru — 2016-12-22 14:03:18 UTC

One of the main challenge is in my opinion, that it has to be always possible to use the cloud. Either for the teachers, which is the smaller problem, and also all the students.
So if there aren't enough machines in the school it can be a little problematic to use cloud-solutions as an main tool in the class.
On the other hand you can use clouds just as an storage tool, so the students always have the possibility to get on their documents an informations.

Lino Milita, Italy

2016-12-22 20:57:57 UTC

The cloud allows different occasions and higher learning and teamwork way more intense.

Slavica, Macedonia

2016-12-24 08:56:46 UTC

Probably the main challenge is unstable internet connection. It would not be possible to store, access and collaborate on the cloud services without it. Another issue that could not be ignored how the data on the clouds, although free, is secure. Probably, there will be more challenges during the process of migration, but I am optimist that it will be worth.

Lena R., Greece

rossiou — 2016-12-24 23:38:40 UTC

The main challenge that I a=encouter is tachers' traing

Thanassis, Greece

afloros — 2016-12-26 22:31:34 UTC

From the point of teachers, the main challenge is the reluctance to use modern tools that require specialized knowledge on computers.
Also students mention the lack of computers at school, or at home.

Paola, Italy

2016-12-26 23:12:59 UTC

There are many good reasons to integrate cloud services at school, as the video showed, but the main challenge in my school is to change minds, leave the blackboard and copybooks and try to use computers or tablets. Teachers should train using computers. But we mainly need a proper and well functioning Internet connection and change all the obsolete computers.

Andrea

2016-12-27 09:44:45 UTC

The main challenge is to convince people not to "have" everything (which is not a secondary problem). Moreover there is the problem of digital divide with students...
Technically i think there is not such a big problem...

Anna C. Italy

ciaramellaanna — 2016-12-27 17:43:46 UTC

As well as some colleagues have written ,the main challenge in schools is to change minds, many teachers do not accept innovation stay rooted to the old methodologies is more comfortable and less tiring.
I normally use with my pupils Padlet, but con some colleague of platform eTwinning or course on line I have used and use use: Google, Padlet, Prezi, Edmond etc... These App are really interesting.

Petra, Slovenia

petra_dermota1 — 2016-12-28 08:53:50 UTC

There were no special challenges, when we integrated Google Drive in our school infrastructure. For now we only use Drive among teachers. We have shared documents like:

- Suggests and updates for ICT equipment, in which every teacher can suggest what he needs for better teaching.

- Reservation of computer lab, so that every teacher can see, when computer lab is free or occupied.

- Reservation for tablets, which students can use in classrooms,

- Students grading monthly plan

- Short project descriptions for current school year

- Attendance at lectures plan

- Teachers education plan

Jelena

jelenapro — 2016-12-28 13:01:33 UTC

I agree with some colleagues, that the main challenge is to change minds. Every year we have a trainings about new methodologies and only few teachers use them.

Mara, Italy

maraguanella — 2016-12-28 15:11:00 UTC

Me too I agree with some colleagues, that the main challenge is to change minds.

Unfortunately In my school we are few teachers to use the cloud; I try to convince my colleagues to use it to share reports, homework, lessons so we have all the material always available and we can save time... but it's exhausting!

M. Glòria Solà, Catalunya

msola127 — 2016-12-28 17:24:20 UTC

I found the work very interesting temperatures. We use Google drive to work in small groups and make some projects using cloud tools for conceptual maps, posters ... But we work in one hour weekly or difficult to relate class areas.
We also use digital books. Is are in the cloud.

Patrizia, Italy

patriziae6 — 2016-12-28 18:13:05 UTC

The cloud allows different occasions and higher learning and teamwork way more intense. I believe that the use of cloud services implements the collaborative learning and the communication between the students. The major problem is that the teachers have not enough knowledge about these technologies and so it is difficult to adopt these educational techniques. The main challenge in the school is to change minds, leave the blackboard and copybooks and try to use computers or tablets.

Mteresa, Italy

mteresa196 — 2016-12-29 16:33:57 UTC

The challenges are of a different type, but one that you need to overcome it is the connection, it is often unstable and does not support the data traffic; then it will be important the teacher's training!

Josep, Catalunya

2016-12-29 18:06:54 UTC

The main challenge is the connectivity in some schools. Fortunately in my school have a good connectivity. Some students have difficulty organizing documents in the cloud.

Kolbrún - Iceland

2016-12-30 11:29:02 UTC

Thank you Teresita for your informative video, I got many good ideas when listening. I think like many others her on the Padlet have mentioned that the main barrier for using cloud storage are the teachers. They need training to use it by themselves and they have to feel that they are safe using it before they are willing to try it with their students. They have to be aware of how simple and timesaving it can be to change their teaching habits. It is also a good contribution to the debate about the environment to save paper or trees using paperless communication/collaboration.

Monica, Italy

MonicaP — 2016-12-31 11:00:50 UTC

The real challenge is to change minds: I agree. It will take several years, but the teachers have to improve the use of technology. The students use the devices when they are babies and devices are a part of their life. I use technology with my students and they study more willingly.

Mirela Epureanu, Romania

2016-12-31 15:36:23 UTC

I think that the main challenge when integrating external services is the atittude of the others towards these services. This is also the main reason why our school doesn't already use Cloud. Hopefully, these reluctant atittudes will soon change.

Antonietta, Italy

aamore — 2017-01-01 08:00:40 UTC

Thank you Teresita for your interesting and clear video!

I use with my students Dropbox, Padlet and Google applications. Instead of Edmodo we have a Moodle platform and it is very useful for collaborative work.

I’ve not started yet using thinglink, Prezi, and Storify but I’m going to try it.
I'm sure that cloud services implements the collaborative learning and the communication between the students.

Elísabet, Iceland

2017-01-02 09:37:42 UTC

Why Cloud services in School?

Thank you Teresita for you video it was clear and interesting. It is always nice to hear about what is happening it other schools around the world. The project you showed is very interesting and it is possible to take your project and use the process for all kind of projects.

Some of my teachers have been using all kinds of cloud computing f.ex. Padlet, Prezi, Google applications, Dropbox, Showbie and etc.

I think Cloud Technologies are very important in educational process. They provide collaborative space for students and they can reach their resources from each device - tablet, smartphone, PC, laptop. They can also be used for making better connections with students' parents and help those who have some learning difficulties f.x. using Voice typing /input in Google docs and using Drive for sharing workbooks (pdf) and some extension make it easy for students to use the computer for writing text to the pages.

Our main challenges using the Cloud computing is the Privacy. Our students are young and many of the cloud based software have the age limit of 13 years. Also new laws for Privacy protection for under age children are not allowing us to put any information to the cloud services. We have to work and learn much more about security and if and how we are allowed to use the cloud in our school with the support of our community and IT department.

John,

jmw1 — 2017-01-02 20:57:59 UTC

The biggest challenge is to get users to engage with the various applications, particularly if they are familiar with other non-cloud alternatives e.g we are using Google Docs in school but certain staff members have a fixation on using Office products

Tito Livio Filipe, Portugal

2017-01-02 23:14:08 UTC

In my school, the use of cloud services has already started to be done by some of the teachers, for example with the creation of tests, using google forms, which are now improved and that easily allows us to build tests with classification of the answers made by students

Dragan Kreculj, Belgrade

2017-01-03 08:23:40 UTC

Cloud services are applicable in schools. I am using One Drive and Google Drive in teaching. But there are many problems with school infrastructure. For a future Microsoft Office 365 would be the implemented...

Sergio, Spain

2017-01-03 10:36:09 UTC

Conectivity issues are almost solved, so the main challenge is to foster teachers to use all the G Suite applications. Most of the students work easily with them but teachers have more problems, so training is needed.

Gabi, Czech Republic

2017-01-03 17:26:30 UTC

Our school use Office 365. Evidently there are a lot of good reasons to incomporate cloud computing at school. I think that first of all we have to design and establish the plan. The main challenge for our school is to change minds of staff to try something new.

Elisabetta, Italy

elisabetta_siboni — 2017-01-03 21:20:38 UTC

I have introduced 2.0 web tools and Cloud services in my school since I am the institute responsible for ICT innovation in teaching and learning or AD. I really believe in the benefits of using these tools in class and also in school departments. They favour collaboration, creativity, and sharing and they also reduce costs and time in accomplishing tasks and projects. I have also succeeded in persuading many colleagues of the advantages of using them through constant training and tutoring, planning afternoon workshops during which teachers can prepare their own lessons or activities with me as a trainer supporting them. Now this has become a peer to peer lab where teachers exchange ideas and suggestions. I am also the G Suite for edu admin and I am training my school colleagues to use it. More and more teachers are engaged in using technology in class and they have won their resistance and fear. The problem is the wifi connection that should be implemented.

Caterina, Itay

2017-01-04 13:11:39 UTC

very interesting this video... perhaps because I was able to understand. the main challenge that my school had encountered was the insufficient network infrastructure. today, thanks to EU funding, we can use a good Internet connection. the most important benefit of using the cloud is
the large amount of free tools for teaching.

Daniela, Italy

2017-01-04 13:43:03 UTC

In our school we are using the most part of the presented tools (Google Apps, Edmodo, Thinglink, Padlet...) but the main challenge we have to face is that too few of us are regularly using them. We are spending time and energies to train our colleagues, but it's very difficult to persuade them about the utility of cloud services, and in general about effectiveness of ICT in teaching

Afroditi, Greece

2017-01-04 18:55:03 UTC

Two main challenges. First the internet connection of our school is not very reliable and can become very slow or non-existent at times. Second computers are not available to all students so cloud services are reduced to teacher using them only.

Liberato Mazzotta, Italy

2017-01-04 21:29:33 UTC

The main challenge for me in my school is represented by weak (2 Mbps) internet connection and the old devices. I've to say also that many of my colleagues show a certain opposition to the introduction of ICT innovation.

Lynda, Ireland

2017-01-05 18:10:25 UTC

The main challenges are getting teachers onboard and training them to be confident to carry out a project with a class. Secondly not all students have equal access or opportunity to access cloud services at home (not as much as we think sometimes).

Betül, Turkey

2017-01-05 22:50:52 UTC

When pupils dont have connections on net it is not used at home.

Laura, Milan, Italy

2017-01-06 13:52:08 UTC

The main challenge is to push teachers and students who does not believe in technical support to the learning process and are not at all prepared to learn how it can improve.

Sean, Ireland

2017-01-06 16:47:30 UTC

When giving access to pupils, or allocating email addresses, it would be important to get agreement from parents. When implementing something like ePortfolios, who can moderate discussions or publish comments would also need to be considered. Another point might be ensuring that pupils have access to the internet when not in school, so they can collaborate and work independently when not in the classroom

Raquel, Spain

raquelrubioruiz — 2017-01-08 10:25:34 UTC

I use cloud services nearly everyday with my students. They appreciate it (almost as much as me) because it is the most efficient channel to share docs, to implement coop.work and to communicate. However, not all of them are familiar with these apps because they simply don´t have the necessary hardware at home. It becomes a challenge for some to catch up with the ICT due to their lack of means or knowledge.

Elvia, Italy

2017-01-08 17:32:00 UTC

I use e-learning platform everyday and the main challenge is to involved my skeptical class colleagues and two children's parents who still seem not supporting me in that educational approach

Gina, Italy

2017-01-09 18:13:33 UTC

The main challenge is to collaborate with collegues and students.

Vincent, reland

v_gleeson — 2017-01-09 23:38:40 UTC

The main challenge with the cloud services we have is when we can't access them or the connection is slow and unusable. This thankfully never happen for too long.

Nontas, Greece

2017-01-10 21:27:13 UTC

The benefits from using cloud services in School are a lot.I mostly use Google Drive and Dropbox but unfortunately not many teachers use cloud services

Darina, Serbia

2017-01-10 22:09:19 UTC

There are a lot of challenges. Technical problems, skeptical colleagues, talented children, clouding as powerful tool .. But clouding is certainly great opportunity for all students and teachers!

Ada Italy

2017-01-11 18:55:50 UTC

The benefits are the possibility to work on the same project at school and at home at the same time: this is good for example when students live far or in the country or they are ill. Students can work in a cooperative way. The big problem is that my school has got very old computers and connection problems.

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cristinapeicuti — 2017-01-13 11:52:59 UTC

Euripides Greece

ehatziparaskevas — 2017-01-13 16:48:06 UTC

Nice video...Cloud services is realy usefull in education

Grazia Poma. Italy.

2017-01-15 11:09:05 UTC

In our school we use Two e-learning platforms ( Edmodo and Fidenia) for cooperative learning , flipped classroom and for parallele tests.
Until last year only the secondary first level school use these methodology, this school year the primary school has beganned to use a virtual classroom(4-5 classroom).

Francesco, Italy

babelemultilab — 2017-01-16 10:33:38 UTC

I think that introducing cloud services in teaching is a useful way to increase the opportunity of learning for my students even though they haven't the possibility at school to use a personal computer connected to the web. Most of them, on the contrary, have a mobile device like a smartphone which allows them to stay connected 24 hours a day. So the teacher can send them any kind of files or links to support the learning related to the topics of the actual lesson

Maurizio/Italy

tormau — 2017-01-16 22:27:21 UTC

The main challenge that I was encountered when I had Integrating cloud service in my school infrastructure was about difficult and poor ICT skills and participation of teachers.

Bandon, Cork

2017-01-16 22:47:09 UTC

The various cloud services are the way to go.
Yes. you are dependent on a good internet line and the skills of the teacher but more importantly, you do not need to worry about program updates etc. GAFE is wonderful but don't forget about resources such as Kahoot and Plickers. these make teaching and learning fun.
Students love on-line quizzes ... in particular when they are competing either against each other and / or against the clock.
Some of the resources that are predocminatly used in rimary schools are wonderful for fun classes in secondary schools (e.g first years (c.13 year olds)). Try www.eastoftheweb.com, go to wordsearch games and watch the reaction of a group of kids who join the same class group. You can help the weak child get points and no one else notices .... by the way, wait for the reaction when the game is over .... priceless!

Rui Carvalho, Portugal

2017-01-18 12:17:39 UTC

In my school we proposed to the direction of the implementation of office 365, for education, or Google Suite for education, but since there was no interest on the part of the direction to implement the systems, the teachers use among themselves, and with their students, the services Google drive and / or Dropbox

Fran, Spain

francasalf — 2017-01-18 20:06:44 UTC

I can use cloud services at work, in fact I use them every day... but only for didactical purpouses, not for assessment or class/school management. The principal obstacle in this last case is the data protection and other rules that worried me.
Talking about technical aspects, I see that without a clear school policy, teachers use those services at their own risk: different brands or companies, no security plans, difficulties with sensitive data,... I hope in the near future my school (and other), have an structured plan for integrate ICT and cloud services in the day a day life of the institution.

Jordi, Spain

jlosantos — 2017-01-19 13:05:19 UTC

The main challenge is the different speed in the learning curve of students (fast) and teachers (not that fast), but the benefits are clear when working in a co-operative way

Thomas, Austria

2017-01-19 13:19:03 UTC

Our main isses with cloud services are concerns regarding privacy and the connection speed we have as a school with more than 1000 pupils

Julen, Basque Country

2017-01-20 13:33:43 UTC

Our main concern about cloud computing refers to the Internet speed as we use it in every day use, both for course management and class work. And also for resources reservation

Stratos, Greece

2017-01-21 16:03:18 UTC

The challenges are focused at colleagues that do not want or afraid to use IT applications, number of computers at school that are not enough for all students, lack of wifi infrastructure, students that do not own a computer at home and finally legal issues.

Fabio, Italy

2017-01-21 21:44:22 UTC

Our main challenge is to put technology at work. First, the connection. Second, the devices. Third, the ability to use those services. These are very tough challenges we're trying to address.

Concetta, Italy

concetta_drago — 2017-01-21 21:45:33 UTC

The main challenge we encounter when using cloud in our school is the difficulties of the teachers with technolog

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2017-01-23 14:32:26 UTC

The main challenge (technical or not) that you find when integrating is the wifi
In my school the signal from the internet has a day that is very slow.
No cabling, we use routers.
It is new and we are still adapting to new knowledge.
This course is opening horizons and new ways to use tools that help.

Laura Serban, Romania

2017-01-23 19:28:13 UTC

There are some challenges that we encounter in my school: slow internet connection, old computers , teachers abilities.

Serkan, Turkey

pelenserkan — 2017-01-24 17:25:51 UTC

In my school, main challenge would be in out of the school. Not all the students have mobile devices for their own usage. Thus, this could be a problem to include all the students for the cloud.

Emma, Ireland

2017-01-25 21:56:14 UTC

The main problem is getting time to give training to staff. The Principal needs to be fully on board with all advances in Cloud to run it successfully.

Giedrius, Lithuania

2017-01-27 18:24:02 UTC

in our school, the main obstacle would be the resources needed for training the teachers to use cloud technology as some of the teachers might have difficulties learning to to use cloud technology.

Ánxela, Spain

cabeiroweb — 2017-01-28 15:35:43 UTC

The main challenge is to improve the network infrastructure. Its development along with a team of teachers who defend its use in education would allow a positive development

Ivo, Porto, Portugal

2017-01-29 03:05:41 UTC

I currently use some of those referred in video. The main challenge to implement cloud technology in our school should be the training/formation process of all the intervenients in the process.

Cinzia, Italy

2017-01-31 22:22:00 UTC

We use some of the apps shown in the video, and our challenge is to' have almost alla the teachers using them

Andrea, Italia

2017-02-01 15:31:27 UTC

The main problem for us is authentication management. In order to authenticate the users, many cloud systems require an email account for registration, while by the law, children under 14 years of age are not allowed to register any email account.

Marina C, Romania

marinaciubotaru — 2017-02-05 21:52:14 UTC

I like it. This course opening new ways

joelramonph — 2017-03-26 17:08:23 UTC

Emiliana, Italy

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