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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 EduConnection
Joe's Notebook
The Tool Is Not the Teacher
Dear [Name],
My oldest son is 12 and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As his experiences remind me, tools such as laptops don't teach — teachers do. MORE »
Joe Hartley Joe Hartley, VP, Global Government, Education and Healthcare
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Resources
»  Optimize e-Learning with Blackboard on Sun
Learn about the Blackboard on Sun Reference Architecture and making wise choices for your e-learning environment
»  Sun 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Read about our corporate responsibility practices and performance results, including our support of education
»  Videoblog: The HERE Net
Watch Sun's Dr. Jim Baty discuss the next billion users of the Internet in this video from Sun's Customer Engineering Conference 2007
Education Events
»  8th Sakai Conference
See what the Sakai community is all about.
December 4-7, Newport Beach, California
»  3rd Digital Curation Conference
Learn about the global challenge of curating our scientific heritage.
December 11-13, Washington, D.C.
»  JavaOne 2008
Mark your calendar! JavaOne 2008 is around the corner. May 6-8, 2008, San Francisco
»  Sun Tech Days
Develop your skills as Sun's Worldwide Developer Conference stops in the U.S., India, Australia, and South Africa
Inside Technology
Curbing Server Sprawl
Sun's New Intel-Powered
Servers Save Space and Energy
Curbing Server Sprawl Educators have dubbed "funding IT" as their number-one strategic concern. New Intel-based x64 servers from Sun can help them save money — and put the brakes on server sprawl — by doing more with less.
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»  SunGard's New Digital Campus
Test Center to Run on Sun
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Edu in Action
Oxford Preserves Rich History with Sun-Powered Digital Library
Oxford University Find out how the oldest university in the English-speaking world relies on a Sun-powered infrastructure for its library management system and on Sun thin clients for better user access — and how your institution can do the same.
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