I was pleased to do my presentation on Thin Clients to an audience of about 35 participants at the Virginia Educational Technology Leadership Conference in Roanoke, VA on December 11, 2008.  I was impressed by the quality of the questions - one of which I owed an answer for.  This question had to with software to monitor the users.  We are currently using a public domain tool called iTALC.  Check out the link for more information.

Everyone is experiencing cutbacks in their budgets.  These cutbacks will require a different way of looking at your computer refresh plan.  One option is not to refresh the equipment - just keep what you have “a-going”.  But what if there was another option?

Consider the Thin Client.  It will do what you need at a much reduced price!  To help you start to think about the Thin Clients, here is a Google Docs presentation from the Education Technology Leadership Conference in Roanoke, VA, December 2008.  (There are speaker notes available in Google Docs.)

Thin Clients - A Cost Effective Alternative.