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.

Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.2 The Tools and Tweaks

Posted on 06/11/2011 by William Stites

Before begining any project you want to make sure you have the tools to do the job.  In the case of a Moodle 2.0 migration you better have a really good set of tools. “Relax, all right? My old man … Continue reading →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.1 The Decision

Posted on 06/10/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t easy and came with a lot of investigation, thought and discussions, but we’ve decided to make the move to Moodle 2.0 this summer (2011). We have had a number of our teachers, students and tech staff playing with … Continue reading →

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Evernote goes social.

Posted on 05/14/2011 by William Stites

If you’ve update Evernote recently you might have missed the new arrow button in the menu bar. Now I love this feature and find it very interesting because Phil Libin has said that Evernote is the anti-social, anti-viral software, that … Continue reading →

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Catalog your school’s archive with FileMaker

Posted on 04/25/2011 by William Stites

It always feels good to get your hands dirty in a good project and when a colleague, David Korfhage (@drkorfhage – The 1:1 Diaries), came to me with his archive project I was excited. The project he was going to … Continue reading →

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Syncing LDAP (OD or AD) data within Moodle

Posted on 04/21/2011 by William Stites

So we have a Moodle server at our school that is connected to our LDAP server for user authentication.  This works great for us as it provides for easy integration with out other systems that use this form of authentication (FinalSite … Continue reading →

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Moodle: How big is big?

Posted on 04/19/2011 by William Stites

We’ve been using Moodle at my school for years and it’s a real workhorse for us. Moodle is used in classrooms K-12, for committees, clubs, activities and for numerous other school needs. As we are prepare for an upgrade to … Continue reading →

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Zero Inbox: Keeping yourself sane and organized.

Posted on 02/05/2011 by William Stites

For the past week I’ve tweeting about keeping my email inbox at ZERO and have gotten some funny comments back. Some threatening, some jealous, some were just mean, but really… why the hell was I tweeting about this?! Organization. A … Continue reading →

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Evernote at my School: Part Two

Posted on 02/01/2011 by William Stites

In December I posted a video that Evernote shot while at my school earlier in the Fall (Evernote at my School).  The video provided a brief overview of how we are were using Evernote in the early stages of our … Continue reading →

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#edipad for the iPad in Education

Posted on 01/18/2011 by William Stites

I don’t know about you but I am tired of getting spammed by Twitterbots every time I type the hashtag #ipad into a tweet! So… I am suggesting something simple for all of you out there that would like to … Continue reading →

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inService to unService and the addition of the Student Voice.

Posted on 01/12/2011 by William Stites

If you have never attended an unconference before I would highly recommend it.  I recently attended EdCampNYC (My day at EdCamp NYC 2010) and loved it. If you are not familiar with what a unconference is or how it is … Continue reading →

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