Implementation Factors:

Microsoft Surface is a table-like structure with a 30-inch display screen centered on the top or “surface” of the table. The software runs on Windows Vista and has many type of connection capabilities depending on your needs, such as a regular network card (wired Ethernet 10/100), wireless network card (wireless 802.11 b/g), and Bluetooth card connectivity (used for headphone, printer, etc. connections). As far as technology support, each school would need to have a full time network administrator on site along with team of additional IT support. The increase in number of users would need to be addressed prior to implementing these into all classrooms. The ideal situation would be to have “dumb terminals”, i.e. each desk would be a Surface minus the CPU. The information would not be stored locally. The teacher would have the main Surface and the students’ smaller Surfaces would link to the teacher’s. The student’s information and data would be stored on the school’s central server so that as they move from class to class they can still access their information. For additional software capabilities the school would need to purchase a server license so that any computer connected to that server would have access to the software.