Monthly Archives: September 2011

The iPad in Education: The Apps & Deployment

Posted on 09/24/2011 by William Stites

In an earlier post (The iPad in Education and the Questions – 1/10/2011) I began to look at how an iPad could be used in school in a 1:1 setting.  When I wrote the post, I had a lot of … Continue reading →

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Questions for a set of Data Entry Rules and Style Guide

Posted on 09/15/2011 by William Stites

Data is all around us and connected in so many ways.  In schools or any institution there are multiple point at which data can be entered into a system or systems so that it can be used and shared “easily“. … Continue reading →

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Moodle Services Split:Part 2

Posted on 09/13/2011 by William Stites

  Our goal was to split out the Apache & PHP services from the MySQL service  running on our Moodle server. The decision to do this was to address performance issue experience on the opening day of school after upgrading … Continue reading →

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Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers

Posted on 09/09/2011 by William Stites

Early this year we moved our Moodle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Moving to Moodle 2.0:Pt. 1 – The Decision) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were concerned with a number of … Continue reading →

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Managing Your Evernote Sponsored Group

Posted on 09/07/2011 by William Stites

So it’s the start of another school year and what’s become part of my new routine for the start of the year is approving all of our Evernote Premium accounts. The process is a fairly simple one.  We have a … Continue reading →

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