Category Archives: 1to1

Is there an educational rationale for BYOD programs?

Posted on 01/22/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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Pressing Pause on Lion

Posted on 01/21/2012 by William Stites

[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 →

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I say 1:1, you say…

Posted on 01/20/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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The AppleID in your 1:1 Program – COPPA

Posted on 12/12/2011 by William Stites

We have a great 1:1 program at my school. In grades 4-12 every student (and all faculty) have a 13″ Macbook Pro with a 500GB backup drive along with a suite of software we’ve installed for productivity, content creation and … Continue reading →

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Rogue IT in Education and the BYOD, DIY model.

Posted on 10/25/2011 by William Stites

Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) of The Science Leadership Academy and founder of EduCon, said of technology: “Technology must be like Oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement, but, as a Director of Technology, I also need to … Continue reading →

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EdCampNYC 2011 – It’s all about the conversations

Posted on 10/15/2011 by William Stites

On October 1st I attended my second EdCampNYC.  It was a somewhat gray day, but the weather  would be no indication of the quality of the day ahead of me. I had attend the previous year (My Day at EdCampNYC … Continue reading →

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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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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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