The Teaching Space

Episode 4 of The Teaching Space podcast busts cloud myths for concerned teachers.  Podcast Episode 4 Transcript Welcome to Episode 4 of The Teaching Space podcast. In this episode, we are talking about how to cure teachers' fear of the cloud. Let me just give you a bit of background on this topic. Background As well as teaching trainee teachers, I also work with experienced teachers to help them use technology in the classroom more. A couple of years ago, my college "went Google". In other words, we use G Suite for Education as our preferred main tech tool. I mentioned my experience of transitioning to a paperless classroom in episode 2 of the podcast. We use Google Drive for document storage, and collaboration and we also encourage the use of Google Classroom as an online learning portal. We officially went Google two years ago, and we opted for a gentle transition. In other words, we didn't switch off network storage for files on a set date, and we also provided plenty of optional staff development opportun