Cloud Computing
Hosted Locally vs Hosted in the Clouds
From 35 separate email systems maintained by IT
$2 million saved annually
Gmail - 7.5 GB Storage
Talk
Contacts
Tasks
Google Calendar
Google Docs
1 GB files
Word Processor
Slide Show presentations
Spreadsheets
Drawing
Surveys
Wiki like collaboration
UofA and Google
Google Reader
Web feed reader and networking
Google apps Market place
http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
Google Apps for Ed overview
Tools for industry
Blogger
Online journalling and publishing
Google apps Market place
http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
Google Apps for Ed overview
Tools for industry
http://www.vpit.ualberta.ca/email/
Pioneer Cloud Apps you know
http://Google.ca
http://wikipedia.com
http://amazon.ca
http://imdb.com
http://ebay.com
http://Expedia.ca
Centralized Tools in Clouds
Access from any device
Vendor supports and manages resource
Always updated
Most are free
Development of Web 2.0 Apps
Centralize file storage
Access from any device
http://Dropbox.com
http://Box.net
http://Evernote.com
Collaboration
Sharing
Authoring
Competition is getting fierce
Users switch very easily
Little investment
Creative Commons
Legalized sharing of resources
Web Browsers
Need to be current
Google Chrome
Flash
Laptops vs Desktops
Netbooks
Personal Devices
Tablets vs Laptops
iPad
Android
Blackberry
Smart Phones vs Cell phones
iPhones
Blackberries
Android
Economies of Scale
Global
Respositories of useful knowledge
Blogosphere
http://Blogger.com
http://WordPress.com
Microblogging
http://Twitter.com
Wikis
http://Wikispaces.com
Media Wiki
http://Wikipedia.org
Search Tools to find valuable information
http://Search.twitter.com
http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://popurls.com/
http://Mashpedia.com
http://Google.com
Power of the Global Community
Networking tools to network with valuable sources
Collect new posts
Automatic updates and filters
annote and share new posts
Google Reader
IM tools to management personal information pools
Professionals
Students
Everyone
http://Diigo.com
Dashboards
http://iGoogle.com
http://www.netvibes.com/en
PIM
http://Gmail.com
http://Calendar.google.com
Tasks
Contacts
Office Applications
Google Docs
Word Processor
Spreadsheets
Drawing
Presentations
Forms
Zoho Office
http://zoho.com
MS Office
http://officelive.com
File backup, sharing and synchronizing
http://Dropbox.com
http://DuShare.com
File conversion
http://Zamzar.com
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/
Note taking, organizing, synchronizing and retrieving
http://Evernote.com
http://notaland.com/
Examples of Productivity
Planning
http://Edistorm.com
Mindmapping
http://Mindomo.com
http://wikimindmap.com/
Information Management
http://Diigo.com
http://Digg.com
http://Delicious.com
Project management
http://tomuse.com/top-10-best-free-online-project-management-application-services/
Polling and Scheduling meetings
http://Doodle.com
http://Needtomeet.com
CIVS
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
Photo editing and sharing
http://Picasa.com
http://flickr.com
http://zooomr.com
http://photobucket.com
Video editing
http://jaycut.com/
http://Twitter.com
http://Reader.google.com
http://Diigo.com
Examples of Networking
http://linkedin.com/
http://Facebook.com
http://www.yammer.com/
Planning
http://Wallwisher.com
http://Thinkfold.com
http://en.linoit.com
Collaborative writing
http://Titanpad.com
http://Entri.co
Presentations
http://Prezi.com
http://SlideShare.com
http://simplebooklet.com
http://mindomo.com
http://Spicynodes.org
Screenshot annotating
http://Markup.io
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Rubricks
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Drawings
http://www.gliffy.com/
Avatar
http://Voki.com
Audio Guides
http://Audiopal.com
http://Vocaroo.com
http://www.ipadio.com/
Media
http://Youtube.com
Specific channels
Large volume of Tutorials
http://Teachertube.com
http://picnik.com
http://aviary.com/
Examples of Apps for Teaching
Organizing
http://livebinders.com/
Chats or back channels
http://Neatchat.com
http://Chatterous.com
http://Todaysmeet.com
Web conferencing
http://www.wiziq.com/
Polling
http://Answergarden.ch
http://Doodle.com
http://polleverywhere.com
Quizzes
http://testmoz.com/
Surveying
http://TooFast.ca
Gradebooks
http://www.learnboost.com/
Games
http://www.neave.com/
Special Tools
http://futureme.org
http://wikimindmap.com
http://www.lmgtfy.com/
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
URL Shorteners
http://Bit.ly
http://TinyURL.com
http://Goo.gl
Meta Searching
http://Mashpedia.com
http://scholar.google.com/
http://Google.com
http://www.google.com/alerts
http://Ask.com
http://popurls.com/
http://technorati.com/
http://www.reference.com/
http://www.ehow.com/
Study Aids
http://www.gradeguru.com/sps/homePagenlu.do
http://www.koofers.com/
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/mixable/
http://finalsclub.org/
http://cnx.org/
http://openstudy.com/
http://www.sharenotes.com/
http://www.cramster.com/
Note Sharing
http://www.notemesh.com/?a=home
Journals
http://edublogs.org/
http://wordpress.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/
Flashcards
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
Media creation
http://Xtranormal.com
http://VoiceThread.com
Projects
http://tadalist.com/
http://Rememberthemilk.com
Examples of Apps for Learning
ePosters
http://Glogster.com
Story Presentation
http://Juxio.com
http://Storybird.com
http://Toondoo.com
Portfolios
http://www.foliospaces.com
http://www.weebly.com/
http://www.wix.com/
http://www.webnode.com/
http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/
Word Clouds
http://www.wordle.net/
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Analyze Statistics
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html
http://www.r-project.org/
Citation helpers
http://bibme.org
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://www.ottobib.com/
http://www.zotero.org/
Paper Scanning
http://Paperrater.com http://www.scanmyessay.com/essay-checker.php
My list
http://goo.gl/fEi1
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html
http://knowem.com/
Lists of more Cloud Computing Apps
http://www.techsupportalert.com/
http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html
http://www.go2web20.net/
Cloud Computing
http://www.smart-kit.com/
http://jeopardylabs.com/
IE
Microsoft
Chrome
Wikipedia
Dropbox
Yahoo
Evernote
Firefox
Safari
Rod Corbett
http://twitter.com/rbcorbett