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Author Archives: William Stites
Considerations for deploying the AppleTV in your school or enterprise.
AppleTV is awesome! I’ve had one in my home for years and I am really excited about what you can do with these devices and particularly AirPlay. We are beginning to look at using the AppleTV in our school as … Continue reading
Moodle and Blackboard… I’m not worried.
There is a lot of talk out there right now about the fact the Blackboard has purchased both Moodlerooms and NetSpot. There are numerous blog post about it, including Remote-Learners response (Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle – … Continue reading
COPPA Discussion on EdTechTalk
Recently I had the pleasure of joining Curt Lieneck (@clieneck) on EdTechTalk (#ETT21) for a discussion with Arvind (@arvind), Alex (@alexragone) and Vinnie (@vvrotny) on the topic of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Curt and I have been … Continue reading
Posted in COPPA, Randomness
Tagged COPPA, EdTechTalk, ett21
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Talking all things Evernote on Classroom 2.0
On Saturday, February 4th, 2012 I had the pleasure of taking part in a Classroom 2.0 Live webinar where we were talking about all things Evernote. I spoke for about 40 minutes and took questions for about another 40 or … Continue reading
Posted in Evernote, Teaching & Learning
Tagged Classroom 2.0, Evernote, Live Classroom 2.0
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Passion and Inspiration in teaching…with great power.
As a kid I played Dungeons and Dragons a lot! On weekends my friends and I would get together play throughout the night. We’d spend hours diagramming maps, dungeons, fantasy worlds and coming up with new and outrageous adventures. We … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching & Learning
Tagged inspiration, Michael Miller, passion, play, with great power
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My day at Educon 2012
This was the second year in a row that I attended Educon for the Saturday sessions. If you’ve never been to Educon before it is held at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in center city Philadelphia. If you have never been … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Conferences, EdTech, Teaching & Learning
Tagged 21st Century Skills, action research, Bud Hunt, constructivism, Don Buckley, educon, Franklin Institute, Gary Stager, Henry Jenkins, IBL, Jonathan Becker, Karen Blumberg, Meredith Stweart, new media literacies, PBL, Philadelphia, practitioner research, research, science leadership academy, Seymour Papert, simplicity, SLA, social media, teacher research, The School at Columbia, Will Richardson
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Who owns the data in your school?
[Part 3 in a series on institutional data] When an address change comes into your school who owns and enters that data into your system(s)? When standardized testing scores come in, who enters the data? If an alum, who is … Continue reading
Posted in Administration & Management, Data Management, Schools
Tagged data domains, data entry, data ownership
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Is there an educational rationale for BYOD programs?
I spent the morning pouring over a number of blog and ISED listserv posts to try to catch up on the latest talk around the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device or BYOT – Technology) debate in education. I found many comments … Continue reading
Pressing Pause on Lion
[UPDATED – 1/26/2012] There is doing something and doing something right. When you take on any project, particularly one effecting 1000+ people you better make sure you’re doing it as right as possible. My school is a year and a … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, Schools, Technical
Tagged anti-virus, Apple, Lion, Onyx, snow leopard, Sophos, TImeMachine, upgrade
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I say 1:1, you say…
NOTE: Originally posted on the Educational Collaborators blog on 1/18/2012 – Update for Ultrabooks below – 1/21/2012. When you hear people talking about a 1:1 program they could be talking about a lot of different things. A few years ago … Continue reading