THE Journal White Papers
Free K-12-technology-in-the-classroom white papers and case studies from our sponsors. Click a title to read more or download.
02/03/12
This paper will show how desktop virtualization can positively position educational institutions for the future, enabling them to reduce expenses through hard dollar savings and time efficiencies while delivering the experience that students, faculty and staff need and desire. Through the experiences of Babylon School District, as well as Manchester Essex Regional School District in Massachusetts and Rockford Public Schools in Michigan, we’ll paint a picture of how desktop virtualization can revolutionize education’s approach to delivering technology — an approach schools can actually afford.
Sponsored By VMware
02/01/12
This paper explores the potential advantages of using desktop virtualization for PCs rather than taking the traditional approach where every computer has its own operating system, resident applications, memory, processing power, and storage. The methodology for this document is based on in-depth customer interviews and existing IDC desktop virtualization research. IDC Government Insights talked with IT managers in four school districts that have made a commitment to desktop virtualization using VMware. We asked them what worked, what proved to be a challenge, what they might do differently, and what specific benefits they've experienced. All interviewees said that they achieved significant productivity gains, reductions in costs, and improved services for end users. All are in the midst of expanding their initial commitment to desktop virtualization.
Sponsored By VMware
02/01/12
This case study discusses how desktop and application virtualization helped one Wisconson School District achieve its educational goals while reducing costs. The District of Somerset, which had already virtualized its data center in 2005-2006, used a desktop virtualization solution from VMware to extend the life cycle of its desktops and let students safely use their own computers to access school content and applications. The district contains ongoing operational costs and lets students stay productive in more places. Students and school administrators now access their school applications from any device; they simply go to the appropriate Web page, launch a Web view session, and their
“desktop” is delivered to their machine.
Sponsored By VMware
01/25/12
See how one district achieved the highest NCLB scores in its history.
Sponsored By IBM Cognos Software
01/25/12
Are Spreadsheets More Hindrance than Help in Data Analysis? Find out how spreadsheets' limitations can be liabilities, and learn a better way to analyze data. Download The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis white paper and discover how predictive analytics can avoid risks of spreadsheets and produce faster, more accurate results.
Sponsored By IBM Cognos Software
01/25/12
Learn how administrators and educators can be empowered with the insights to help students by using existing data to drive optimal individual achievement, gain greater visibility into school and district performance and enhance program and teacher effectiveness.
Sponsored By IBM Cognos Software
01/06/12
Educators are increasingly recognizing the need for their students to be multilingual. In order to prepare its elementary students for the global world they will inherit, Trinity School in Georgia sought a solution to provide personalized, student-centered, self-paced language learning for a variety of languages.
Sponsored By Rosetta Stone
01/06/12
Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly interested in using educational technology to enhance students’ foreign language learning, and extend learning times into after-school and summer school programs. With this increasing interest, there is a need for scientific research addressing the effectiveness of educational technology on child second language learning. This independent research study examines the effects of Rosetta Stone TOTALe as a standalone system on the second language development of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders learning Mandarin and Spanish.
Sponsored By Rosetta Stone