Jim Klein

Who am I?

Director of Information Services and Technology for the Saugus Union School District, a medium sized (11K students) elementary district in Southern California, where I have been for 12 years or so.

Chair CoSN K12 Open Technologies Initiative
Advisor CoSN MacArthur Grant Project: Effective Use of Web 2.0 in Schools
Member California Dept. of Education Brokers of Expertise Implementation Team
Member CoSN K12 School Networking Conference Committee
Member CUE Legislative Advocacy Committee
Advisor Technology & Learning's Tech Forum West
Advisory Board Member, SearchEnterpriseLinux Magazine
Advisory Board Member, SearchServerVirtualization Magazine
CUE, ISTE, CoSN, and CETPA member

Some of the projects I have been involved with include:
cosn.org
k12opentech.org
edtechactionnetwork.org
elgg.org

Our various technology adventures have been well covered by the media.

I have presented on a variety of topics (mostly open source related) at CoSN's Annual School Networking Conference (in both Washington and California,) the ISTE National Education Computing Conference (NECC,) the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Ed Tech Industry Summit, the Community College Foundation's TechEd Conference, Iowa and Minnesota State Education Technology Directors Summits, the Georgia Education Technology Conference (GaETC,) the California Education Technology Professionals Associaion (CETPA) Annual Conference, the Red Hat Summit, and a variety of other meetings, webcasts, and events.

Speaking engagements (Fall 2008/Spring 2009) include: Innvative Learning Conference, the National School Boards Assoc. T+L Conference (20 to watch roundtable) , California Education Technology Professionals Assoc. (CETPA) Conference, Consortium of School Networking CoSN) Conference

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