Have you attended a large education conference recently? Probably you sat in room after room with hundreds of other attendees listening to outside experts talk about topics that weren’t quite what you were interested in. You were sure there were some interesting conferees to talk to, people who had the same problems you did (and maybe even some answers) — but how could you find who they were and meet them among the swirling crowds? Did you come away frustrated, feeling that only a small portion of the time you attended was valuable to you?

If so, you’re not alone.

An edACCESS conference is different. It is small, responsive, and peer-centered. Small, because edACCESS conferences are limited to one hundred attendees. Responsive, because half the conference is spent discussing topics chosen by attendees through a careful first-day process. Peer-centered, because we believe that, collectively, we are the experts.

Each conference is designed to make it easy for attendees to share what they want to discuss, the problems they need help with, and the answers they have found from their own experience. The conference provides a supportive environment for a learning and teaching experience that is tailored by and for the individual attendees.

Does this sound like the kind of conference you’d like to attend? If so, we’d love to see you at edACCESS 2008.

Register today!

For the past seventeen years, edACCESS conferences have served as an indispensable resource to administrative computing personnel at secondary schools and small colleges. Through four days of presentations, panels, roundtables, and focused discussion, edACCESS 2008 addresses current issues in the education arena, while also allowing time for informative chat sessions, vendor exhibits, and a lot of fun. At edACCESS, attendees walk away from the conference with hands-on, tested solutions to technology challenges, ideas about approaches used at other schools, and a network of technology “gurus” with whom they can discuss topics in the future.

edACCESS traces its roots back to 1991, when three computing directors at two small colleges in Vermont met to discuss the growing gap between the administra­tive computing solutions used by their institutions and those used at larger schools. Out of this meeting grew ACCESS — Administrative and Campus Computing Environments at Small Schools. The first two ACCESS conferences were held at Marlboro College, Vermont, in 1992 and 1993, with more than one hundred participants from seventy schools.

In 2008 we will be returning to the pristine 2,200 acre campus of St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware. (Want a glimpse of what it looks like? Rent the movie “Dead Poet’s Society,” which was filmed there in 1989.) Once again, attendees will enjoy our unique blend of peer-centered informal and informative discussions, coupled with great food and a pleasant environment. To maintain the warm social atmosphere of the conference and to meet the needs of every participant, we limit the number of attendees to one hundred. edACCESS 2008 will be a unique opportunity to get answers to questions, network with peers, and have some fun. Don’t miss it!

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