Monthly Archives: December 2011

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

Posted on 12/24/2011 by William Stites

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

Posted on 12/11/2011 by William Stites

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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