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Information to keep in mind when pushing cloud computing to the community and the school district

useful information on WHY go to the cloud... i found the cost-savings numbers to be surprising, and i think this kind of info is what needs to be shared with others when asking to shift from a program like Word to Google Docs.  has real, definable, quantifiable meaning

Cloud-based video editor - similar to JayCut (although looks nicer); biggest question is: how log will it be free?

interesting advent in the digital textbook market - Discovery's Techbooks. iBooks competitor? From the article: Discovery's Techbook series is cloud-based, meaning students can access the materials from wherever they have an internet connection; the company says that's because not all school districts have the funds to give every student his or her own device. The Techbooks are also platform-agnostic to work with whatever hardware a district or student might have-iPads, tablets, mobile devices, laptops, or desktops.

Interesting article about a Google data center in Finland and, more broadly, how Google and other Internet giants build and create the environments that house the cloud data.

A nice introduction to cloud computing.

Free online video creation tool - described as "iMovie + Google Docs)