Category Archives: Teaching & Learning

Passion and Inspiration in teaching…with great power.

Posted on 01/30/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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My day at Educon 2012

Posted on 01/29/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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Dealing with COPPA: Compliance, the lies and the future.

Posted on 12/11/2011 by William Stites

I don’t know about you but I am struggling with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). As we look to use different online tools in the classroom we evaluate them on the service(s) they provide, whether they meet our … Continue reading →

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Interested in talking about Moodle? Moot anyone?

Posted on 11/12/2011 by William Stites

Are you interested in talking about Moodle? Would you like to come to a conference devoted to Moodle? Would you be willing to present at a conference devote to Moodle? Are you are curious about how Moodle can be used in your school? Would you … 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 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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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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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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