Monthly Archives: November 2010

Design for Distraction

Posted on 11/22/2010 by William Stites

The New York times story “Grow­ing Up Dig­i­tal, Wired for Dis­trac­tion” point out many of the ways that tech­nol­ogy is ingrained in our stu­dents lives and what that means for teach­ing, learn­ing and dis­trac­tion. But dis­trac­tion isn’t any­thing new. Whether … Con­tinue read­ing →

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

Posted on 11/19/2010 by William Stites

“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 out there … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Time Machine and Evernote for Disaster Recovery

Posted on 11/16/2010 by William Stites

Oh my god… my hard drive crashed! What do I do now?!? How many times have you had a stu­dents or col­leagues say these words to you? When they do it is as if their lives — their dig­i­tal lives for … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Untag me

Posted on 11/15/2010 by William Stites

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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Evernote in the Classroom

Posted on 11/11/2010 by William Stites

You can plan, you can train and you can offer all the pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment you want around a cur­ric­u­lar ini­tia­tive, but you never know how well some­thing will truly work until you unleash it into the wild and have the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Talking 1to1 and all things Evernote

Posted on 11/08/2010 by William Stites

On Octo­ber 27, 2010 I have the priv­i­lege to talk to Alex Ragone (@alexragone) and Arvind Grover (@arvind) on edTechTalk’s 21st Cen­tury Learn­ing. The topic of the thirty minute dis­cus­sion was the recent deploy­ment of my school’s 1to1 ini­tia­tive and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Expanding the Definition of Community to a Global Community

Posted on 11/04/2010 by William Stites

Is com­mu­nity just the area in which you live and work or is it some­thing more? Wikipedia’s def­i­n­i­tion of com­mu­nity is as fol­lows: Tra­di­tion­ally a “com­mu­nity” has been defined as a group of inter­act­ing peo­ple liv­ing in a com­mon loca­tion. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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