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Educational Technology

Can netbooks and virtualization make 1:1 computing possible?

February 19, 2009

Niagara Wheatfield School District, a rural upstate NY school district wanted to investigate the efficacy of the new and emerging ‘best practices’ that could make 1:1 computing possible for the average school district. The district is now near the end of a their ‘proof of concept’ stage which tested a combination of 1:1 computing, virtualization, sub $500 mini notebooks, [...]

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Cloud Computing, Virtualization, and K-12 Education

January 10, 2009

Thomas Bittman of the Gartner Group has written a thought provoking blog post on Cloud Computing and K-12 education. Bittman begins his piece by letting us know that he is serving as a volunteer on the technology planning committee of his home school district. His first impression? The web, social software and cloud computing will [...]

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Newly enhanced RDP client from HP

December 19, 2008

One of the biggest gripes of the RDP protocal was its inability to provide the same experience for the end users as to what they’d expect from a standard pc when accessing rich multimedia applications and streaming video. Although, Citrix’s ICA client helped alliveiate this pain for many schools the costs didn’t out weigh the [...]

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4 Trends That Could Change Everything

November 27, 2008

 From the E-School News article by Gregg Downey Experts point out there are several well established technology trends that are poised to have a significant impact on the world. Gregg Downey points out that: “…educators might do well to take heed of four of the more ubiquitous of these trends, which I’ll allude to by [...]

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ClassLink partnered with HP Thin Clients provide reliable technology in the classroom

August 8, 2008

View a short video outlining how ClassLink and HP thin clients provide reliable technology in the classroom, while improving student access.

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