Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Breakfast Club library and John Hughes, both genius!

Posted on 05/27/2012 by William Stites

[NOTE: This was orig­i­nally posted on another blog I no longer main­tain.] John Hughes was a genius! From Mr. Mom, Vaca­tion, Uncle Buck to Fer­ris Bueller’s Day Off his movies defined a gen­er­a­tion. So while home on break, when I thought … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Understanding Open Source

Posted on 05/26/2012 by William Stites

I am a big advo­cate of open source soft­ware.  We’ve used it at our school for a num­ber of years.  Our fire­wall is an appli­ance called Untan­gle. We use open source soft­ware in the class­room includ­ing tools like Open Office … Con­tinue read­ing →

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COPPA and Verifiable Parental Consent

Posted on 05/22/2012 by William Stites

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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Geeking out at the PSU MacAdmins Conference.

Posted on 05/06/2012 by William Stites

If you’re not push­ing your­self you not grow­ing.  Find­ing good oppor­tu­ni­ties and ways to push your­self pro­fes­sion­ally are often hard to come by, so when my col­league came back from the PSU MacAd­mins con­fer­ence last year and said “WOW” I … Con­tinue read­ing →

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