Tag Archives: ipad

Make the Bretford PowerSync Cart for iPods work with your iPads

Posted on 01/10/2014 by William Stites

How many of you are still using the classic iPod or iPod Touch in the classroom? Many of you, like us, have moved from iPods to iPads and with this transition may be left with devices and hardware to repurpose … Continue reading →

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Using device management to teach responsible use.

Posted on 02/05/2013 by William Stites

If you attend an educational technology conference, follow any of the Ed Tech listservs or are active on the Twitter hashtag #edtech you’re bound to find conversations on device management or deployment. The conversations will generally revolve around how to … Continue reading →

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Evernote Forever on the Out of School podcast.

Posted on 11/21/2012 by William Stites

On November 20th (2012) I had the opportunity to talk with both Bradley Chambers (@bradleychambers) and Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) about “Evernote Forever” on their Out of School podcast. The discussion moved between many topics including the experience at my school … 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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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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#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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The iPad in Education and the Questions

Posted on 01/10/2011 by William Stites

[New related post – The iPad in Education: The Apps & Deployment – 9/24/2011] Since the release of the iPad,  there have been a lot of questions about its use in the education space.   As someone who spent the last five … Continue reading →

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