Category Archives: Technical

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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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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Using HelpDesk data to choose the next device.

Posted on 10/11/2018 by William Stites

Data is all around us and can help guide the decisions we make in all aspects of school. As we prepare for the next cycle of devices for our 1:1 program I wanted to get a better look at the repairs … Continue reading →

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Using Finalsite and Google Forms to address complex form creation.

Posted on 09/27/2018 by William Stites

  We are often asked to create a variety of different forms for our institutions: donations, events, interests, just to name a few. Many of these can be built quite easily, but when you have a particularly complex form to build … 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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Device concerns for our Apple 1:1 and the future

Posted on 09/24/2018 by William Stites

This coming June we will be refreshing our device fleet and celebrating what will be the 10th year our 1:1 learning initiative. The program has held at its core the learning goals and has let those goals lead the technology choices … Continue reading →

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Gone in a FLASH – Dealing with FLASH and your browser.

Posted on 10/13/2017 by William Stites

Adobe’s FLASH is slowly going away and by the end of 2020 will officially be “end of life”. You can’t run FLASH content on any iOS device and with each new browser update FLASH content is getting harder and harder … 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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Uncovering iOS 9.3 for Education

Posted on 01/31/2016 by William Stites

With the release of iOS 9.3 Apple will have finally taken steps bring true management to the iPad. While information can be found on the Apple web site there are still many questions and answers needed. While attending the NEIT (NYSAIS Education & … Continue reading →

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