THE USAGE OF GOOGLE CLOUD SERVICES FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF STUDENTS HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

摘要

The article is devoted to the introduction of cloud technologies to monitor and analyse the state of physical development and health of students, their awareness and readiness for a healthy lifestyle. For reliable information on the physical health of students, it is proposed to determine the level of health of each student through the POPs (self-assessment of health), involving the students themselves in gathering and accumulation of information, and in order to interest them in this problem, methods of self-monitoring and individual calculations by means of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are offered and in particular the application of Google cloud services, which are widely used by anyone in any moment as proposed freely in the Internet. In such circumstances for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of physical health of academic group, the calculations of five indices are applied during Valeology classes at pedagogical institutions of higher education. Their analysis allows to generalize the results at qualitative and quantitative levels and to show them as tables and graphics. Students themselves collect information to determine each criteria about the state of their individual health and livelihoods and using the proposed software products of cloud services, quickly make appropriate calculations that allow you to evaluate and monitor the health status of the academic group (or course in general) in practical classes and performing individual tasks or educational projects. This approach makes it possible to involve students in the use of Google cloud services and to more accurately evaluate the relevant factors while at the same time contributing to the formation of an active and vital personality of a future specialist with higher education and his professional competence. The proposed method can be successfully applied in practice to assess the level of physical health and healthy lifestyle in all areas of human activity, and it allows to solve the task of health preservation and forming of healthy lifestyle of separate office workers’ groups effectively. The article highlights the level of students' acknowledgement about healthy lifestyle and application of Google cloud services for evaluation of this level, which is possible for junior students of pedagogical universities and even high school pupils during the monitoring of their health level.