Srikar's WRA-110 Website

   This lengthy and informative article is primarily about, as the title states, the importance "Teaching in the Cloud" and the various methods in which students and teachers can benefit. This article supports its main idea by utilizing subsections which explain the many ways in which students and teachers can benefit from emphasizing cloud writing in the classroom. Each subsection provides many cases and examples to persuade its audience. A few of  these being how students can participate in class without physically being at the class, how students can share resources online and provide critiques on each other's work, and how teachers can modernize their classrooms by utilizing new pedagogies.

   The article's targeted audience is most definitely teachers, department administrators, or anyone with authority in the academic world. The essay focuses on persuading the audience to phase out old teaching methods through the use of cloud computing. There are a large number of citations used in this essay. This could signify that there are many other teachers who support the author's opinion.

   As I stated in one of my earlier blog posts. I have been using cloud services such as Google Docs (now Google Drive) since my early schooling. From using it so often, I can clearly see the advantages of classrooms using such a technology. Almost all of them are acknowledged in this essay. Something I found strange though, was that the essay never mentioned any disadvantages of using the cloud. I understand that this is a persuasive essay but it should acknowledge the other side.