Redefining Data-Driven Decision Making - Keith Waters, School CIO
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:28 GMT - Throughout the country, district superintendents expect their chief information officers and IT staff to play an instrumental role in helping educators increase the quality of education. But the processes and steps to improving performance are often not so clear. In 2003-2004, educators from 12 districts in the St. Louis metropolitan area decided to tackle this complicated issue head on. They

Business Intelligence Basics - Lane Mills, School CIO
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:27 GMT - Multi-modal means of analyzing data can produce actionable results. School systems face many decisions in developing and maintaining learning environments that create success for all students. From district operations to the classroom, we implement solutions and take action based on the information we have at hand. While there is no shortage of data, turning that data into useful information is

Getting Started with Data Warehousing - Lane Mills, School CIO
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:27 GMT - The first in a series on managing data efficiently in your district. These days, "data-driven decision making" is on every school district's buzzword bingo game board. Accountability pressures and lean budgets make translating data into information is a major focus of school systems trying to improve district outcomes in all areas. As such, data warehousing has become an essential district tool.

Adobe?s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere - Erick Schonfeld, Tech Crunch
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26 GMT - Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier to develop applications across devices?using Flash, of course. David Wadhwani, general manager of Adobe?s platform business (which includes Flash/Flex,

Internet Pop-Culture Memes - Kristina Grifantini, Technology Review
Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26 GMT - Friday, April 25, was the first of the two-day ROFLCon, an event featuring the people behind current memes of pop Internet culture. The conference, organized by Harvard students and taking place at MIT, was a high-energy crowd of mostly college-age attendees touting signature red ROFLCon lunch boxes. A panel this afternoon looked at the current popularity of LOLCats, a website that lets users

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