CLOUDY SERVICES AND PECULIARITIES OF THEIR USE IN THE TRAINING PROCESS
The article describes the features and possibilities of use of cloud services in the studying process, among which the major cloud providers are Microsoft and the Google, which give the universities free cloud software and reservoir data. As an example of advanced services that are based on cloud computing technology for education, we considered Live@edu from Microsoft (Mail Hotmail, Windows Live SkyDrive, Live Web Messenger, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Virtual Academy) and Google Apps Education Edition (Google Apps Education Edition, Google Academy companies, Google Book, Google Groups, Google +). This experience allows us to define a number of advantages of using social networking services in the educational process: information literacy, including the acquisition of online interaction skills, in which it is important to know about information security risks; formation of media literacy, the presence of which allows you critically evaluate, create and use media content that, for example, creates the conditions for the submission of personal educational achievements and results; personality development, its expression through online interaction through communicative practices, creative content production and network security.