Gregg's Technology Blog

The challenge districts are now facing is how to provide cost-effective, relevant, current, sustainable, environmentally conscious and ubiquitous access to resources that work for today’s educational outcomes and simultaneously anticipate the future.

We are very proud to announce that the Saanich School District was a finalist in Canada's Greenest IT. We have shown that you don't have to compromise functionality while reducing energy, green house gases (GHG) and our carbon footprint. Saanich is utilizing an open source solution which uses a Linux server at each school and very energy efficient diskless clients for our desktops.

What is learning in a digital age?

In the year 2010 technology continues to change at a dizzying pace. Our children are growing up in an environment of ubiquitous access to the resources, information and people they communicate with. By ubiquitous I mean pervasive, anywhere-anytime access. To our children access may include a smartphone, iTouch, personal computer, public computer any or all other digical devices which allows them to communicate via social networks, email, serach engines and the vast resources available on the internet to name just a few. Our children and specifically Saanich students live in a digital age.