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If you're attending EdNET this year in Boston, look for Clarity Innovations' representative: Thor Prichard.  EdNET brings together the education industry's leaders, experts and key players for "the premier business-to-business conference in the industry". Designed to provide a networking and discussion forum, the intent is to come away with new ideas, colleagues and insight.

Portland, Oregon -- When Cottage Grove, Oregon, area parents send their students off to school, they'll be pleasantly surprised what they find online for the South Lane School District: A completely new, friendly, and frequently updated Web site to make the back-to-school season easy to manage.

Find us at the next meeting of the NW Education Cluster, Tuesday, August 5, at 6:30pm.  On the agenda are a series of presentations from local business schools, the Saturday Academy, and one local company working in the education marketplace.  We hope to see you there!

The 10th annual Open Source Conference (OSCON) is taking place in Portland this week and Clarity Innovations is one of the sponsors of the Drupal Community Welcome Social on Wednesday (7/23).  There, we will enjoy many local treats (food and beverage) and swap stories with our compatriots. Read more about the free, open, and public event. We hope to see you there!

Thor Prichard, President & CEO, will be attending the 2008 Internet Strategy Forum Summit taking place this week in Portland, Oregon. The Summit gives Clarity a chance to share insights and ideas about the role and affect of ubiquitous networking and computing on our society with others from Forrester Research, Disney, Nike, Intel, IBM, WebTrends and Fandango. Clarity plays an important role at the Summit, bringing its hybrid perspective of education and technology to the table.

Join Thor Prichard and Steven Burt at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) June 30th through July 2nd in San Antonio, Texas. Find us contributing to the discussion at many of the Web 2.0 related sessions and the discussion on Twitter.

]Several of our staff will be attending sessions and sharing ideas with colleagues at WebVisions. The annual event, taking place later this week over at the Oregon Convention Center, explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that force everyone to rethink their assumptions about the Web.

Come meet us at the next meeting of the NW Education Cluster, April 17th.  At the meeting will be a presentation from Accelerate Oregon, a group that's trying to leverage public and private commitment to Oregon's K12 education system to improve teaching and learning through the integration of technology.  For more information about the meeting, contact us. 

In case you haven't noticed recently, we've been expanding our team of hybrid expertise in education and technology.  This is due in part to expanded engagements and services in the field of education content development.  For example, we're developing new curriculum for helping educators make effective use of laptops now increasingly being deployed through 1:1 initiatives.  We're also working on materials for a client to help leaders in education champion professional development in technology integration.  It's going to be a busy spring here at Clarity Innovations.

New research from Tom Layton, Online Learning Evangelist for Clarity Innovations, suggests three important goals for preparing students to live and learn in a digital world, along with eight recommendations for reaching those goals. To learn more about his work, contact us.

On the docket next is the scarcely available XO laptops. These laptops are being distributed to children around the world with the intent of providing them with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. (Image courtesy of One Laptop per Child.) Layton plans to test the device's abilities to overcome one or more of the seven problems that currently inhibit efforts to provide the kind of education students need to learn in today's digital world. To learn more about the seven challenges, contact us.