Head in the cloud

In my last post I mentioned ‘cloud computing’ as the future for schools, removing the struggles with networks and other technology needs that many schools endure.

A couple of additional things about that:

Firstly a youtube video which shows what cloud computing is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNuQHUiV3Q

Secondly, amongst many others, a compelling reason for schools to participate in cloud computing is because of the inevitable increase, as they implement more technology,  in unstructured data. Such things as email, instant messaging, word  processing documents, web page content, audio and video files need classification, storage and retrieval conventions and standards that are difficult to arrive at, implement and manage.

This is just another layer of technical expertise and management that serves to deflect from core activities, in the case of schools, education provision.

The more I consider this the more I believ in this inevitability of schools going the cloud computing route. If I am right about this, all those involved in technology provision in the education system from central and local government to individual schools should be taking it into account in their planning.