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Co-location most commonly refers to running or installing data into a single computer, data centre or process. For example, virtualisation happens when a host server uses virtual software and hardware platforms to run more than a single instance of a piece of software on a different platform. When it comes to website hosting, co-location involves co-locating the network equipment that keeps your website up to another location. There are a number of facilities that exist specifically for the co-location of equipment. The gear may be co-located to a brand new location, but the end result is essentially the same and does not necessarily impact your website's capabilities.

The biggest decision to make when it comes to your hosting is whether or not you should go for data centre hosting or co-location, however they are actually one and the same for the most part. Co-location facilities are data centres, but not all data centres are co-location facilities. Some data centres may not allow for any equipment to be co-located, but may still allow for purchase of dedicated servers so that essentially the same thing can be achieved. Data centres are brick and mortar facilities; equipment is housed that allows for remote user access for web hosting and other computer related services. Co-location is the process of housing this data and information someplace else other than in these data centres owned by the hosting company in question.

Some of the benefits of co-location are listed below:

• One benefit to co-location is an increase in security, as data centres offer strong server security and confidence for your most critical data. Data centres used in co-location are monitored all the time, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week which means that your data is safe.
• Your web host benefits from co-location because they do not have to shell out the costs associated with building and maintaining their own in house dedicated servers, therefore they can sell hosting to you and co-locate your hosting equipment to a more inexpensive option.
• Co-location allows hosting clients to have their own bandwidth, ram and other important hardware without being forced to share. What this means is that systems and servers can run at their highest possible capacity.
• Because co-location involves dedicated servers that are regularly monitored and located in the highest quality facilities, hosting clients can rest assure that the services they purchase will be 100% reliable and trustworthy.
• The concept at the core of co-location is location independence, which means that you are not required to have your data or equipment hosted by a specific data centre. Instead, you have independence to host your data and equipment wherever it is most feasible for the smooth operation of your business website or data. By co-locating your server, your physical business can run efficiently and effectively.
• Another benefit of co-location is an increase in flexibility because you will be able to grow and upgrade your technology as your company grows without ever having to make additional investments.

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How do you integrate technology into the curriculum? Do you have any ideas to add to the list?

Class Set of Laptops

• Get a company to donate a class set of laptops when they upgrade their equipment. (The company can receive a charitable donation tax-credit.)
• Set up a wi-fi Adapters And Cables in your classroom so Memory Cards And Expansion Paks students can blog online during Batteries And Chargers reading and writing workshops.
• Purchase digital copies of textbooks to have a paperless classroom. Use text-reading Time Cards (i.e. Kurzweil) to highlight and take notes Commodore the textbook.

Non-Traditional Reading and Writing

• Teach students the differences between formal, informal, and colloquial language and explore text messaging, chat rooms, and msn-speak as forms of colloquial language.
• Evaluate the evolving nature of language and develop word-attack skills by examining how words get accepted into everyday language (or the dictionary). For example, Google is now a commonly used noun and verb.
• Use text-reading Nintendo Nes (i.e. Kurzweil) to allow students to access difficult texts.

Blogging

• Have students set up personal blogs as a medium to Strategy Guides their writing portfolios.
• Explore how Google is a popularity contest. Publish work in an e-zine article directory to understand how to build inbound links. Post comments on other blogs to build inbound links.
• Explore copyright issues. Publish work in a blog or an e-zine article directory will inevitably end up with your work scraped onto another blog without proper attribution. Explore how that feels and the ethics of using other people's content without consent.

Computer Safety

• Discuss cyber-bullying: ways to protect yourself, how to respond when Sega Game Gear happens, and how to avoid accidentally cyber-bullying when blogging.
• Explore computer safety: password strength, viruses, trojans, phishing, etc.
• Learn Game Controllers online dangers and ways to protect yourself.

Classroom Website

• Make hand-outs and homework Batteries And Chargers accessible on a classroom website.
• Use a secure website as a communication tool for marks for both parents and students.
• Introduce your students to HTML and web design.

Making Systems Online

• Introduce students to the business of making money online.
• Explore advertising online - how it works.
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GPS and Mapping Technology

• Geo-cache with your students.
• Use GPS technology or mapping software (i.e. Google Earth) in Strategy Guides class to construct larger geometric shapes. (i.e. construct a circle that has a radius of 5 city blocks.)
• Apply GPS technology or mapping software in Geography.

The Internet as a Global Village / Community

• Find a class to pen-pal with and correspond using blogs, email, or IRC chat rooms.
• Use a wiki for students to synthesize and evaluate knowledge gained in a content-subject like History or Geography. They can track how their understanding of concepts grow. Nintendo 64 how our understanding of a subject-specific topic evolves over time (i.e. a dynamic and digital KWL chart)
• Publish student work in English and in their first language online so that relatives overseas can celebrate in their success.

Technology as a Teaching Tool

• Use a data-projector in class to do modeled and shared readings.
• Use a data-projector in class to do shared writing: the Nintendo Game Boy Advance Sp equivalent of flip-chart paper
• Use dynamic geometry software (i.e. Geometer's Sketchpad) to explore math concepts.

Music and Technology

• Buy songs (i.e. itunes) and allow students to DJ their own school dances.
• Critically examine popular music to determine whether mainstream music is appropriate at a school dance (i.e. Soulja Boy - Crank that)
• Create your own pod-casts. Students can use free sound-editing software (i.e. audacity) to mix in free sound effects (i.e. ljudo.com) with their digital recordings of their voices.

Class Projects

• Send an object around the world and invite people who find the object to leave a message online in the classroom blog.
• Explore the video making process: scripts, recording, editing, post-production
• Explore youtube as a medium to publish content.

If you're ready to start a classroom blog, we're here to help at http://blog.classroomteacher.ca where you'll find this information and more detailed information about how to use technology in the classroom.

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