Author Archive | Jason Ramsden

About the Author

Beginning a career in independent schools in 1991, Mr. Ramsden brings 20 years of experience to his role as Chief Technology Officer for Ravenscroft School. For the last 14 years Mr. Ramsden has dedicated his career to improving technology in independent schools both on the instructional and infrastructure levels. Presently, Mr. Ramsden is a member of NAIS' 21st Century Curriculum/Technology Task Force, a member of the Consortium of School Networking’s CTO Advisory Council, and a contributing writer for edSocialMedia.com. Previously, he has been a SAIS/SACS Visiting Team Member (2010, 2008, 2006), had founded NCAIS' Commission on Technology (2008), was a member of NCAIS' Technology Conference Planning Committee (2006 - 2011), and founded the TAIS Technology Directors Association (2005). Prior to his appointment to Ravenscroft in the Fall of 2006, he served as Technology Manager at The Hill Center in Durham, NC (2003-2006), Network Administrator & Technical Support Manager at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut (1999-2003), Director of Technology at Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York (1997-1999), Associate Director of Admissions at Trinity-Pawling School (1994-1997), and Director of Admissions and Public Relations at Xavier High School in New York City (1991-1994). Mr. Ramsden holds a Master of Science in Education, Administration and Supervision from Fordham University and a B.A. in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland.

Pinterest: Why Pinning is Better than Posting Pics

Posted September 17, 2012

With digital cameras in almost every type of mobile device imaginable, snapping photos of campus events is easier than ever before. Awesome, you say? I can now crank out photos and post them to my school’s Flickr page quickly and easily and then move on to the next item on my crowded “social media to do” list. Right? Perhaps.

The 1st Rule of Social Media…

Posted November 20, 2011

I love Twitter for the simple fact that it helps bring ideas together. Or, as Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation would say, Twitter is a place where “hunches collide” (Johnson). So, what is this hunch I’ve had for awhile but wasn’t quite sure how to spell [...]

Communicating & Connecting with Social Media (Part II)

Posted May 07, 2011

Back in the fall of last year I penned a post here on edSocialMedia.com titled Communicating & Connecting with Social Media (Part I). In that post I detailed how social media helped connect me professionally to like-minded people as well as how social media had become an important professional development, networking, and collaboration tool for [...]

Communicating & Connecting with Social Media (Part I)

Posted September 20, 2010

While I can’t remember the tweet verbatim, nor who initiated the conversation, the overall context was something like, “Hey, we both seem to be two cool guys involved in education, using social media and living in the Raleigh area, want to grab lunch sometime to connect face to face?” Now, fast forward two years to [...]

“Rocks, Diamonds, Pearls & Gold; Knowledge Mining with Social Media”

Posted May 27, 2009

Unless you are presently living in hiding, in the mountains of a remote land, you have no doubt seen Twitter and other social networking sites referenced in the mainstream media. My hometown paper here in Raleigh, The News & Observer, has written over 80 articles since the start of 2009 that reference Twitter. Unfortunately, most [...]

“No offense….but who cares?”

Posted April 16, 2009

Bluntly stated, and with almost comedic dead pan, that line was delivered during a session on Web 2.0 tools and Social Media that I was presenting at the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools Annual NCAIS TECH conference a few weeks ago. The attendee, a development professional, was clearly struggling with the conversation that morning [...]