1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) The importance of " Cloud Education " at Development Organizations Proposed concepts, purposes, strategies and tools for the Education Network of AECID Agustín de la Varga González Throughout his career he has made a lot of vignettes Education adviser with which has captured this feeling of infant pupils Spanish Agency for International Development AECID Guatemala city, Guatemala agustin.delavarga@aecid.org.gt Abstract- This document is the summary of the proposals generated in the latter year of work for the consolidation of several tools to support the managers network of AECID's education programs in which, by the use of the TICs, we trie to create a collaborative environment of learning based on strategies of " Cloud Education " that help us to improve our daily work in the interventions that we are developing on cooperation in the educational area. Key words; Cloud Education, Development Organizations, Cooperation to development at the educational area, in service training, Tics. The following is taken from a presentation of the great communicator and expert in developing creativity Ken I. INTRODUCTION Robinson [2] which has helped with a significant contribution to changing educational paradigms through its The first time I read about the concept of " in the cloud work of spreading. education " without depth knowing of it, This two words reminded me an anecdote of my childhood: When I went to Summarizing Ariel Rodríguez [3] main constraints of this collect my certificate of primary education at the school model of traditional education are supported by the where I studied, There was a teacher who said that she could following statements: also give me a pilot certificate. When I Asked why, she told • Assume that teaching and learning are inseparable me smiling that it was because of the number of “flight hours” that I had, by the time I had spent “in the clouds” ... activities With this situation I try to show how is the common feeling • The unidirectional transmission from a recognized of many of the students, after going through the traditional expert an isolated individual education system. Other examples of that situation are • The proof of the acquisition of knowledge resides in presented below graphically: the own knowledge (not the ability to use it) • Learn only what other wants to teach • Limited knowledge sources • The environments are predictable and static (in other words, terribly boring) This conception the educational environment has also been deeply rooted in the in-service training of staff within organizations.. II. SCENARIO DESCRIPTION At the present time, the expansion and incorporation of ICT into our everyday reality have created a new scenario reeling the foundations upon which was the seat previous model and now are the basis for consolidate a new paradigm in training staff in service of development organizations. This image belongs to the Italian educator and illustrator Francesco Tonucci (Frato) [1]. 1 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) V. CONCEPTS The enumeration of the special characteristics of our work in education could be listed as follows: This diagram of T. Anderson and F. Elloumi [5] illustrates the new modes of interaction between the teacher, • Coexistence of multiple actors and instruments. the student and the knowledge or content: • Care for geographical priorities, sectorial and transversal axes • Need for coordination between peers and between different hierarchical levels. • Scenarios changing and unstable frameworks. • Loss of multicultural environments and references. III. JUSTIFICATION The above bases the need for updated information, communication channels agile and efficient, and above all, with a great adaptability that can be trained and reinforced with models based on the theory of " Cloud Education" which they are based the proposals I want to present . The first meetings of the Network of Education responsibles took place in late 2011 in Montevideo, Uruguay for Latin America and the area in Madrid for the rest of the countries where the AECID works. As part of these meetings was presented our PAS Sector Action Plan [4], which, in its Strategic Line 4 on the institutional strengthening established four lines of action: • 4.1 Planning, Diffusion and Advocacy • 4.2 Capacity Building Starting from the different itineraries in sight that range • 4.3 Knowledge Management of modalities and different paths you can take away from the traditional pattern with the teacher as a unique intermediary • 4.2 Coordination of stakeholders. between the content and student. The response to this line of action in relation to training Comes into play combined modalities between the component was completed in the course of Expert passing of e-learning (learning through the web) and the p- Development Cooperation in for Education that now reaches learning (personalized learning) [6] and also collaborative its final stage and whose methodology of e-learning consider learning or learning by personal inquiry. From this diagram wise. It would be a pity that the training process had begun emerge education approaches at the education network in the to stop with the end of it. In this respect it is necessary a cloud learning environment. response from the education network to supplement, update and especially sustaining through time the path initiated. The concept of Cloud Education, began to be used by its relation to the concept of cloud computing, term that describes today most Internet services supported on: IV. OBJETIVOS "…Web 2.0 and its evolution toward cloud computing, The aim of this paper is to present the concept of cloud the emerging phenomenon with social software, makes the education and the tools it uses. Submit in an orderly manner man of today is active participant in their training on a the proposals that have been made in the framework of the network read and write. This evolution of Internet-based education network, towards their dissemination, communities of users and a wide range of communication implementation and improvement as well as raise two services, information processing, knowledge socialization, specific contributions: The document manager and the information exchange, social networking, blogs, video and network stakeholders catalog by country using two specific audio streaming, podcasts, wikis, among others. Make ICT tools: Biblio and Symbaloo distance learning education evolves into a cloud that promotes collaboration and rapid exchange of information between users…” C. Castaño [7] 2 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) In implementation of the model three variables come into Tools and resources for cloud education play with great relevance in the scenario described: • Cost: The proposed tools are free for use by a Allows working registry, others offer the opportunity to acquire an with text or spreadsheets extended version, and others finally are open source. collaboratively • Flexibility: They are scaleable, can be extended or (evolution of https://drive.google.com/#my-drive compressed, abandoned or transfer content from one Google Docs) to another. • Accessibility: You can access them at any time and under multiple platforms. Creating and Managing Wikis Looking for its utility for our case and applying the http://www.wikispaces.com/ theory of George Siemens [8] on the seven roles of teacher learning about networking I have compiled a reference table to identify what would be the potential role that can play in Pinboard or our Education Network virtual "cork" http://www.spaaze.com/home Role of the education network in the educational environment in the cloud Eestrategies and Role Activity Tool for sharing Tolls Draw attention to presentations Amplifiy Twitter, blogs relevant ideas http://www.slideshare.net Facilitate access to Intermediate Design tutorials readings and resources Create a social sense of Comments on blog Signpost the activities posts, Aggregate Reveal patterns Google alerts, RSS File sharing tool Helping to think RSS, discussions https://www.dropbox.com/ Filter about the reliability critically of information Highlight relevant Collecting and Model information and disseminating good B. Comunication Tools interaction patterns practices Continous Maintaining the Newsletters, Foros, presence continuous presence posts, podcast Tools and resources for cloud education Purpose Estrategy VI. TOOLS CATALOGUE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING Useful for sharing ideas and PURPOSE AND STRATEGY.. Comunication information in text, audio or video. synchronously or asynchronously. In this section I propose a classification of tools to be used according to their purpose and strategy for implementation, to the many possibilities offered by the net I have selected five tools for each of the identified purposes. Audio / Video The common characteristics of these 20 applications are its Conferencing gratuity, its relative ease of use and its good design in order and Instant to comply with its function Messaging http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home A. Colaboration tools Audio / Video Tools and resources for cloud education conferencing: allows multiple Purpose Estrategy simultaneous Its utility is the ability to work and http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx users for free interact with others on projects of Colaboration common interest in a shared and collaborative way 3 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) Tools and resources for cloud education D. Creation Tools Tools and resources for cloud education Management Tool for Blogs Purpose Estrategy http://www.blogger.com/ Útiles para la creación y representación Creation de las ideas o los conceptos Curate content tool Useful for the creation and http://www.scoop.it representation of ideas or http://cmap.ihmc.us/ concepts Recording and storage audio Presentation of online ideas with http://vocaroo.com/ http://prezi.com/ zoom. C. Documentation Tools Tools and resources for cloud education Recording and Purpose Estrategy editing podcasts Useful to collect or presenting http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=en Documentation evidence of experiences, productions. Creating "Webmix" Image Editing (virtual http://www.symbaloo.com/ desktops) http://www.gimp.org/ Videotaped Creating eBooks desktop activity. from a web Very useful for http://dotepub.com/ http://camstudio.org/ create tutorials. E. Interaction tools Management eBook collections Tools and resources for cloud education http://calibre-ebook.com/ Purpose Estrategy Allow the exchange of information, Interaction ideas, resources, or materials in multiformat Tool to create notes http://evernote.com/intl/es/ Create digital Spanisih social portfolios network on http://www.livebinders.com/ cooperation http://www.facecoop.org/ 4 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) Tools and resources for cloud education Social network https://twitter.com/ Tool for creating online courses. http://moodle.org/?lang=en Link: Virtual http://cooperacioneducativa2012.wikispaces.com/ communities https://groups.google.com/ C. Our Twitter Tool for creating learning spaces for students and http://www.infuselearning.com/ teachers VII. EXAMPLES OF THE TOOLS USED A. Our blog with Blogger This was the first tool that came into use on the network is the main function of communication but also serves as documentation of the process and even the expression of Cuenta: @cooperacioneduc ideas as a comment to the posts. D. Our topics with Scoop. it Link: http://cooperacioneducativa2012.blogspot.com/ With scoop.it we create a constantly updated newsletter. B. Our Wiki with Wikispaces Links: http://www.scoop.it/t/noticias-sobre-educacion This Wiki was created with the idea of having quick access to all web links grouped by sorted according to the http://www.scoop.it/t/cooperacionydesarrollo lines of action and the strategic lines established in our education Sector Action Plan. http://www.scoop.it/t/noticias-sobre-guatemala 5 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012) the database created in Excel software program created BIBLIO by the Department of Education of the Government VIII. SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC PROPOSALS of Galicia to manage school libraries who also asked for permission to use it. This program allows us to export the A. Symbaloo Catalogs by country catalog that is stored in a file or on the web so that whoever installed the program to import the file and get the complete At the network we feel the need for a directory of catalog. organizations, experts and national and international partners. After creating the database on the 23 priority countries we uploaded it to Symbaloo that lets us create and share these "webmix": virtual desktops with all links grouped by color: • Orange: AECID country office, Cultural Center, Embassy • Blue: International organizations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, OEI, SICA • Black: Country Profiles: site profile at AECID webpage, HDI Human Development Index by UN, World Bank statistics, Wikipedia entry, Sheet country statistical office of UNESCO-UIS, entry on Relieweb on humanitarian action, and the refence of Human Download link: Rights Wacht for.human rights issues • Brown: The main stays of government: The Ministry http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/ceipdepetelos/?q=node/16 of Education, the educational portal, the web and IX. CONCLUSIONS general government body responsible for planning or related international cooperation En n this paper we have presented a wide range of • Green: major NGDOs education sector with a options towards the implementation of a system of "learning presence in the country cloud" on the net now the rest is kept in engagement with the end goal of all this is basically inform, educate ourselves, • And last blank, national entities related educational share information and work in a collaborative environment to improve our professional and personal performance. At the end of the material presented here are but mere tools that can help us for achieve these higher goals. REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS [1] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Tonucci [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson_(educationalist) [3] http://es.hybrid- days.com/sites/default/files/01.EDUCACION_EN_LA_NUB E.pdf [4] http://www.aecid.es/galerias/que- hacemos/descargas/AF_EDUCACION.pdf [5] Anderson T and Elloumi F (eds) (2004) Theory and Links: practice of online learning Athabasca, AB: Athabasca University (Copyright Creative Commons) http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/educacioacute-nguatemala [6] Attwell, G. (2007). Personal Learning Environments. The future of elearning? eLearning Papers, [7] Castaño, C. (2009) Web 2.0 el uso de la web en la B. Document Management System with Biblio sociedad del conocimiento investigación e implicaciones Educativas. Caracas. Universidad Metropilitana The volume of documentation generated in network was [8] http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=220 becoming bigger so that it required a management system such documentation for this and as in previous case import 6