Daily Spotlight on Education 11/20/2008
From David Warlick - Google life photo archive.
Evaluate VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) Free for 60 Days - VMware
This software lets you take one host PC server and this lets you virtualize servers. In Walton County - have 100 servers and 60 are virtual. All independent and have their own IP address and appear completely independent -- they have 6 blade servers. This does cost money.
This would let me move the Accelerated Reader and Accounting system to separate "virtual servers" and if one needed to reboot, I could reboot a "virtual server" and not the physical server.
This is from an expert IT - Jack Higgins, Network Analyst - Walton County schools in Atlanta, GA -- met by accident in the Atlanta airport. A lot of these bookmarks are from him!
This lets the processes run by windows be shared by all the "virtual" servers so it requires a lot less power and is very "green." Anything taking up memory space that is duplicated, and it takes up one.Rushton Hurley works with this cool repository of free online videos for teachers at nextvista.
Google map showing all live piracy incidents in the world - this would fascinating to discuss this in a current events class and correlate the incidents of piracy with political regimes and other correlated items.
Present to the class- here is the map -- figure out why this may be happening in these places.EducationCity – educational games, fun learning for children, teaching resources
Website they are using in Walton County, GA and enjoy- it is a subscription
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
