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.

A conversation about Evernote and our 1:1 initiative.

Posted on 10/14/2011 by William Stites

In the Spring of 2011 I had the pleasure of joining two of my colleagues (Jenny Zagariello – @jennyz49 & Christian Ely – @christian67 ) in a conversation with Andrew Sinkov (@sinkov), VP of Marketing for Evernote in NYC to … Continue reading →

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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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The new OS wars… moving beyond the desktop. Are you ready?

Posted on 07/14/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t to long ago that when you were talking about what technology to use in school the discussions — or arguments — were about whether you were a Mac or PC school. These same conversations happened as schools considered … Continue reading →

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Evernote and Firefox 5 PSA

Posted on 06/24/2011 by William Stites

If you’ve update to Firefox 5 and your Evernote add-on is no longer working here is a link to the the beta: http://update.evernote.com/prerelease/ENMozillaExtension/mozilla-extension-4.beta.xpi  

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How do I set up self enrolment in Moodle 2.0?

Posted on 06/20/2011 by William Stites

First off… I know that you spell enrolment with two “l’s”, but Moodle spells it with one. As we are beginning our training around Moodle 2.0 there are some small, but important differences that are coming to light.  Depending on … Continue reading →

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edSocialMedia: When it’s time to use Twitter in the Classroom

Posted on 06/14/2011 by William Stites

Over on the edSocialMedia site my latest blog post explores the question of when do you know if it’s the right time to use Twitter in the classroom. The post came after ready the CNN article “Twitter finds a place … Continue reading →

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