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COPPA and Verifiable Parental Consent

If you’ve spent anytime talking about an iPad deployment, AppleIDs, social media – particularly Facebook, how you can use Evernote (or many other web-based services) with students under the age of 13 you’ve more than likely been confused by COPPA. … Continue reading

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Where’s iDVD? Apple’s move away from optical media.

It’s the day before Christmas and all the through the house not a creature is stirring… except for my cousin who is trying to put together a DVD project on a brand new Lion iMac and couldn’t find iDVD. With … Continue reading

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

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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WordCamp Philly Version 2.0

There are certain things I look forward to in my job and the opportunities it affords me to learn new things and expand knowledge base.  WordCamp Philly 2011 provided me with the opportunity and delivered on learning in spades. This … Continue reading

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EdCampNYC 2011 – It’s all about the conversations

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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Evernote goes social.

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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I blog and why the hell should you care? (or My Expanded About Page)

“Who the hell is going to want to read what I have to say?” This was the question I asked myself when I started this blog. It is something I consider each time I write. There are a million blogs … Continue reading

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Untag me

I was walking through the halls of our middle school one afternoon and I saw a student wearing this shirt.

I thought to myself what a simple statement and what a powerful message. Continue reading

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