Jason T. Ramsden, CTO @ Ravenscroft School (Raleigh, NC)

Just about a year ago today I was returning from one of my all-time favorite cities, The Big Apple, after attending NAIS’ 2008 Annual Conference. For those that know me well NAIS ‘08 was a life changing event for me professionally. The speakers, the sessions, the ideas and the connections I made have served me well this past year and have dramatically changed how I view that which I do.

Today, as I reflect on the past year and consider how NAIS 2009 has impacted me, I am reminded of a quote fro… Continue

Back in August 2008, as we began the new school year, I gave a short presentation to our faculty and staff on the challenge of change. The reason for the presentation was during that summer we rolled out a new website and a new campus wide database in one fell swoop.

Going in I knew there would be many challenges associated with such wholesale change on a school campus. Perhaps, however, being the ever optimist that I am, I did not foresee how greatly challenge and change were intertwined.

Sin… Continue

NCAIS and the Commission for Technology would like to extend an open invitation to all members of ISENET to attend NCAIS TECH 2009 on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 @ Providence Day School (Charlotte, NC)

Keynote Presenter: Ian Jukes, Educational Futurist

Click here to learn more about the conference.

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Regardless of your political beliefs nary a fellow could argue that President Obama penned what could be considered the seven most critical words spoken during his inaugural address.

Why those seven words? For me, those seven words are the key to economic reform in this country. They are the key to political reform in this country. But more critical than any other they are the key to education reform in this country.

We, and by we I mean any administrator, faculty member or student committed t… Continue

to those faculty and non-techie folks then you might want to check out http://www.commoncraft.com/ a company out of Seattle, WA. They use a simple format and real-world stories to make sense of complex ideas. In short, think of UPS' commercial concept used to explain twitter, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, etc.

Here is an excellent example of their twitter explanation - http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever