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Progression to the Cloud

August 7, 2011

We are seeing increasing instances where K-12 schools are transitioning IT budget to cloud technologies. Recent research provides evidence that within 5 years time, education institutions will allot a quarter of their IT funds to the cloud. Per the polling, the majority of schools are now using a form of cloud technology. Out of these [...]

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Virtualization, Thin Clients, and Energy Consumption

May 5, 2009

  In previous posts I documented a financial strategy that allows the average district to afford ubiquitous and/or one-to-one computing. This week I want to broaden the strategy to energy savings. It’s amazing what a significant savings replacing traditional ‘fat clients’ with ‘thin clients’ can be. The University of Pennsylvania produced the energy graph below [...]

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Network Paradigm Shifts Can Create Ubiquitous Computing Environments Without Increasing the Tech Budget

December 18, 2008

Cross Posted at Ed Tech Journeys Recommendation: Shift the current ‘Distributed Network’ paradigm to the emerging practice of ‘Virtualization’. There are several technical approaches to virtualizing networks but, in general, most involve running software on centralized servers rather than on the hard drives of thousands of computers distributed throughout the school district network. In a [...]

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Vision

May 27, 2008

Amid the fast changing world of educational technology, a new and exciting vision is emerging; one that ultimately has the potential to transform teaching and learning. What is that vision? At the highest level it is one of ubiquitous student access to the tools and resources of learning. Just exactly how does ubiquitous access transform [...]

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