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School / Work Affiliation: Senior Advisor, Academic Leadership Associates

Website: http://academicla.net

Skype Account: jmichaelthompson

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: jmichaelala

About Me: I am a Senior Advisor at Academic Leadership Associates a firm focusing on assisting colleges and universities with strategic planning, enrollment planning, accreditation review and with companies seeking to enter the education space.

Prior to joining Academic Leadership Associates I served for four years as the CEO of Xap Corporation and Bridges Transitions Inc. Xap is the provider of 38 college access portals in 29 states, some examples are:CSUMentor ,California Colleges and CollegeinColorado in the West to CFNC.org, teachercenter.org and GeorgiaCollege 411 in the south to IllinoisMentor in the Midwest to WaytogoRI in the east.

Bridges Transitions is the provider of career exploration and planning tools at the elementary(Paws in Jobland), middle school (Choices Explorer), High school and post secondary (Choices Planner) and for adults (Career Transitions)

Prior to coming to Xap in April 2007 I spent thirty years in higher education administration in a variety of roles, University Registrar, Computer Center Director, Associate Vice Chancellor, Vice Provost and Dean.
I am interested in how to bring the vitality of social networking to programs used in schools across the continent while avoiding the pitfalls of inappropriate behavior.

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At 8:48am on October 13, 2012, Amelia said…: Hello dear,I'm Amelia by name,I have something very important to discuss with you,please kindly email be back(
amelia_herbert23@yahoo.com)I will be waiting to hear from you soon.Thanks

At 1:12pm on January 31, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Michael,

With your work in Ed Tech and Distance Learning, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.

At 12:55pm on December 26, 2008, marcotuts said…: Hi Mr. Thompson,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com