Category Archives: Schools

Using Common Sense Privacy Rating in Your School’s Vetting Process

Posted on 02/18/2024 by William Stites

As the conversations swirl around the application, services, vendor vetting, and AI data concerns (see Nick Marchese recent ATLIS post – AI tools that use data prompts and user data to train models), I am curious about the criteria used in … Continue reading →

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The Low Hang Fruit of CyberSecurity

Posted on 11/02/2020 by William Stites

The threats relating to cybersecurity are real and on the rise amid the COVID crisis. Phishing-related attacks are up over 600%, and users are 3x more likely to click on a COVID-related link and enter their user credentials. Institutions small … Continue reading →

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Don’t forget about bandwidth in your remote and hybrid learning plans.

Posted on 05/22/2020 by William Stites

There is a lot of talk about what school is going to look like in September and a lot of questions that have come with it. Will we open online? What will our schedule look like? Will we have some … Continue reading →

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10 Website Tips for 2020 – My Takeaways from FinalsiteU.

Posted on 03/08/2020 by William Stites

There are numerous things that you can learn while attending a conference, and the best are the things you can take away that apply across several areas.   This past week I attended the Finalsite user conference – FinalsiteU – in … Continue reading →

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Another thought on fighting Phishing with a footer.

Posted on 09/20/2019 by William Stites

Recently my school had an audit of our G Suite for Education domain and one of the findings was for a footer/disclaimer/confidentiality statement to be appended to the emails sent from the school. For those of you unfamiliar with what this it, … Continue reading →

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Which to use… Evernote, Moodle & GSuite?

Posted on 10/12/2018 by William Stites

For a very long time we have been using Evernote and Moodle at my school. We started with each tool over 10 years ago. After conversations with Phil Libin & Andrew Sinkov sitting in our Middle School computer lab, we … Continue reading →

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Three helpful hints for deploying 2 Factor Authentication

Posted on 09/26/2018 by William Stites

As part of the work that we are doing to address the growing number of cybersecurity concerns at my school we are requiring 2 factor authentication for all employees using our Google accounts. The GSuite of tools are being using … Continue reading →

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5 tips for avoiding the blank stare when talking about data management.

Posted on 01/19/2018 by William Stites

We’ve all seen it, that moment when you start talking to people about a topic and you know they have no idea what you are talking about or don’t understand half of the words coming out of your mouth. You … Continue reading →

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Our experiences with the AppleTV in Education.

Posted on 09/26/2017 by William Stites

So ee have AppleTV 3 (2nd gen) deployed EVERYWHERE! This is actually our second refresh of the devices since putting them in about 2 or 3 years ago. We initially put them in as we wanted to allow teachers and … 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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