When reading this article I noticed one sentence in particular that really stood out to me. Cloud computing, was said to have the potential to offer staff and students better services at a lower cost than the technology deployment models they're using now. Right there, I thought to myself, well who wouldn't want to use this method? Cloud computing was noted as having many advantages with its applications that rely on file storage and the internet itself. This method allows for files and programs to be stored elsewhere, so the computer doesn't have to hold much on its hard drive. One positive aspect is that", cloud computing also makes it possible to use less-powerful computers, such as netbooks. A school district can lower its computing costs by using these inexpensive computers to access the cloud". It noted that many schools and universities are already using the cloud.
Netbooks, according to Wikipedia, are "a category of small-sized, low-cost, lightweight, lean-function subnotebooks optimized for Internet access and core computing functions." This I feel is great for programs such as word processing and other document programs.
One last aspect I liked in this article was the mention of google docs and gmail, as being intertwined with clouding. Google is a high networking source and gmail is my current emailing account. I can definitely contest and say that cloud computing may soon be the norm using in education.
