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NEIT 2009 - NYSAIS Education Information Technology Conference
If you were able to attend the conference - and especially if you weren't -
visit the conference wiki. It is rich in content including videos of the fabulous keynote speakers, notes and links and other resources from the Open Space sessions on a variety of topics, over 600 photos, a twitter feed and more. This was collaboration at its best, from 150 education information technology practitioners from 4 states, plus Turkey!
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Update Your School's ProfileAs a condition of membership, Heads of School (or designates) are responsible for updating their information including address, phone and fax numbers, grades and enrollment, as well as key administrators and their email addresses. We use this data when compiling our printed Directory of Schools, when emailing critical announcements and professional development opportunities, and families use it to search for NYSAIS schools in our online directory.
Check your data for accuracy now.
View this short video which explains the process. Don't hesitate to contact NYSAIS should you have questions.
Conference & Workshop Registrations Now Open
New Event Registration System
Register now for all cobnferences and worksohps. Our new registration system allows you to register one or more people for one or more events, using a credit card, in a single "shopping cart" type transaction. To get started:
About 200 teachers, presenters and NEIT (NYSAIS Education Information Technology) Committee members spent Friday, May 1 teaching and learning with technology at Packer Collegiate Institute. Many resources from the conference are available for everyone on the
conference wiki . If you were unable to attend, you can still take a look at many of the presentations, resources, notes and photos from the day.
These Best Practices are offered by the Board of Trustees of NYSAIS for highly practical reasons; experience
indicates that when they are followed schools benefit and when they are
not followed it is to the detriment of the individuals and institutions
involved. Open and forthright communication is critical within the
context of appropriate and thoughtful expectations of all involved.
We (NYSAIS staff and teachers and administrators of member schools) are reading....
NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children - by Po Bronson
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community by Alfie Kohn
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Hardcover - Nov 18, 2008)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
Click here for many more titles>
What are you reading? Please contribute to this list by writing to Barbara Swanson
Professional Development Update
Registration is now open for winter and spring events. A list of upcoming events is listed on the banner to the right. For a complete list go to the Conferences and Workshops Calendar. The calendar opens to 2009, so you need to click the year arrow to view 2009 events. Email barbara@nysais.org should you have questions.
Credit card payment is now accepted for all online registrations.
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