Author Archives: William Stites

About William Stites

Currently the Director of Technology for Montclair Kimberley Academy, occasional consultant, serial volunteer for ATIS, husband, and father to two crazy kids who make me smile everyday.

Finally! An Apple ID for Students under 13.

Posted on 03/03/2014 by William Stites

After much debate, discussion and begging by schools Apple has created a program that will allow student under the age of 13 to create Apple IDs. This announcement was made along with a number of other improvements to the MDM … Continue reading →

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Big Data? We need to focus on Little Data!

Posted on 02/03/2014 by William Stites

It’s everywhere!  People are talking about it in all aspects of life. Business, research, education, economics, socialnomics… you can’t escape it! BIG DATA! Data is everywhere and in everything that we do. If you’ve bought anything, searched for anything or signed … Continue reading →

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Make the Bretford PowerSync Cart for iPods work with your iPads

Posted on 01/10/2014 by William Stites

How many of you are still using the classic iPod or iPod Touch in the classroom? Many of you, like us, have moved from iPods to iPads and with this transition may be left with devices and hardware to repurpose … Continue reading →

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Using Evernote to Manage your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Posted on 08/16/2013 by William Stites

A teacher is a life-long learner, a student by nature, and their learning process continues to grow and develop in many ways. Experiences in their classroom, conferences, people they meet, colleagues, listservs, blogs and people they follow on Twitter or … Continue reading →

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Evernote Business for Education

Posted on 07/02/2013 by William Stites

Yesterday, in an email announcement, Evernote opened up Evernote Business for education. My first look at Evernote Business was when I attended last years Evernote Trunk Conference and heard the announcement of this new service.  While the focus was clearly on … Continue reading →

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Success is about sharing.

Posted on 02/08/2013 by William Stites

After work­ing for years on our school’s 1:1 Learn­ing Ini­tia­tive we are now com­ing to the end of our first three-year device cycle of and, it is helping us exam­ine, inves­ti­gate and reaf­firm where we are and what will be doing for the next three years. We are taking … Continue reading →

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Using device management to teach responsible use.

Posted on 02/05/2013 by William Stites

If you attend an educational technology conference, follow any of the Ed Tech listservs or are active on the Twitter hashtag #edtech you’re bound to find conversations on device management or deployment. The conversations will generally revolve around how to … Continue reading →

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Enough with the jargon! Simplify and talk about Teaching and Learning.

Posted on 01/27/2013 by William Stites

I like things simple.  Break things down for me into their simplest terms and let’s talk. This is the model I follow when I talk to anyone about technology I try to break things down to their simplest parts as … Continue reading →

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The Art of WiFi… literally.

Posted on 01/07/2013 by William Stites

The following video was done by three people in Oslo, Norway is amazing!  It uses light and a long exposure shot to show wifi signal strength and show the juxtaposition of the physical and wireless worlds is truly a work … Continue reading →

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Using Minecraft in your school’s admission process.

Posted on 01/07/2013 by William Stites

Do your students like to play Minecraft? Have they asked you if they can put a Minecraft server on your network? (Have you let them?) I don’t know about you, but every time I walk into our Middle School Tech … Continue reading →

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