Monthly Archives: September 2011

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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Questions for a set of Data Entry Rules and Style Guide

Posted on 09/15/2011 by William Stites

Data is all around us and con­nected in so many ways.  In schools or any insti­tu­tion there are mul­ti­ple point at which data can be entered into a sys­tem or sys­tems so that it can be used and shared “eas­ily”. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle Services Split:Part 2

Posted on 09/13/2011 by William Stites

  Our goal was to split out the Apache & PHP ser­vices from the MySQL ser­vice  run­ning on our Moo­dle server. The deci­sion to do this was to address per­for­mance issue expe­ri­ence on the open­ing day of school after upgrad­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers

Posted on 09/09/2011 by William Stites

Early this year we moved our Moo­dle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Mov­ing to Moo­dle 2.0:Pt. 1 — The Deci­sion) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were con­cerned with a num­ber of  issues, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Managing Your Evernote Sponsored Group

Posted on 09/07/2011 by William Stites

So it’s the start of another school year and what’s become part of my new rou­tine for the start of the year is approv­ing all of our Ever­note Pre­mium accounts. The process is a fairly sim­ple one.  We have a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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