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Virtualization

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 which shows [...]

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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 virtualized environment [...]

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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 teaching [...]

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