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 * Team Member A:** **Project Leader**

Technology is creating a “flat” world, where connected knowledge pools allow anyone with the resources and requisite skills to collaborate and mine unlimited data (Friedman, 2005). Cloud computing, shared resources and applications distributed across the internet, enable people worldwide to harness computing power, storage capacity, and applications more economically and expeditiously. Cloud computing is the way people work, collaborate, and communicate today (Johnson et al., 2009).

“Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines” (Johnson et al., 2009). Not only do today’s workers need to know how to use technology to connect to the world around them, but they also need to know how to locate, assess and disaggregate the vast stores of data at their disposal.

This course is designed to motivate K-12 teachers to integrate cloud computing into their classrooms and to give teachers the skills to apply cloud-based technologies to enhance instruction. The technologies covered in the instruction are YouTube and wikis. As a result of the instructional program, teachers will explain the rationale to use cloud computing in the classroom and will develop one or more applications to enable students to use cloud based tools in the classroom in a way that mirrors how technology is used in the world at large.

References

Friedman, T. (2005). It's a flat world, after all. The New York Times. Retrieved from [|http://www.nytimes.com].

Johnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R. (2009). //The Horizon Report// (2009 ed.). Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from []