Cloud technologies and their ways of use in the process of preparation of the future teachers of labor education

Abstract

The article covers the aspects of application of cloud technologies in the educational process. The analysis of key features of the Google Apps for Education system and key Google services that help students to learn, to improve their skills and abilities, and promote the professional growth of the future teachers of labor education is analyzed. We mentioned that the use of cloud technologies in the educational process is studied by a wide range of local and foreign scholars. These technologies can be widely used in the professional activity of the future teachers of labor education. They include G-mail, Google Docs, Google Sites, blogs and Google Academy. Also we disclosed the features of using cloud services during the preparation of future teachers of labor training at the Faculty of Technologies and Design which are used during the laboratory classes on the "Fundamentals of Information Technologies" discipline. Talking about cloud technologies we can’t help saying about sites because many teachers of labor education have personal sites on which they present teaching materials, various master classes, ideas banks, methodical treasury, which contains the development of lessons and extracurricular activities, interesting didactic materials and photo products of students. We concluded that cloud technologies offer an alternative to traditional forms of learning organization, creating an opportunity for personal learning, interactive classes and collective teaching.