December, 2005
District Administration
Thin is In......
In more districts, thin clients are replacing "fat" computers. Is the time for a computing revolution near?
At New York Hudson Falls High School, Tracy Jameson leads her earth science class into a computer lab. The 18 ninth graders take their positions in front of empty screens and sleek identical looking "thin client" devices. The aside for the lab is out sick today but Jameson does not seem to mind. She encounters no technical glitches or questions she can't answer.
Within seconds the same version of PowerPoint and Photoshop are up and running. Each student gets busy coloring in bar charts and tweaking graphs for personalized slide shows on temperature conversion from celsius to fahrenheit.
" Everything is consistent. Before we had thin client you would hope that PowerPoint was loaded onto all regular computers and that they had the most updated version" ( Tracy Jameson, Hudson Falls High school Teacher)
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