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Author Archives: William Stites
Success is about sharing.
After working for years on our school’s 1:1 Learning Initiative we are now coming to the end of our first three-year device cycle of and, it is helping us examine, investigate and reaffirm where we are and what will be doing for the next three years. We are taking … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, Teaching & Learning
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Using device management to teach responsible use.
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
Enough with the jargon! Simplify and talk about Teaching and Learning.
I like things simple. Break things down for me into their simplest terms and let’s talk. This is the model I follow when I talk to anyone about technology I try to break things down to their simplest parts as I … Continue reading
The Art of WiFi… literally.
The following video was done by three people in Oslo, Norway is amazing! It uses light and a long exposure shot to show wifi signal strength and show the juxtaposition of the physical and wireless worlds is truly a work … Continue reading
Using Minecraft in your school’s admission process.
Do your students like to play Minecraft? Have they asked you if they can put a Minecraft server on your network? (Have you let them?) I don’t know about you, but every time I walk into our Middle School Tech Center … Continue reading
Posted in Administration & Management, Schools
Tagged admissions, admissions process, Easter Egg, gamification, Minecraft
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Learning from and overcoming the past to move forward.
When you make a decision about something… anything… big or small you are setting a precedent for things to follow. The bigger that decision is the more people will remember it and turn to it in the future as a … Continue reading
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Google is offering a $99 Chromebook! Wait…does cheap make it right?
This is a quick reactionary piece to two things I read today that have me scratching my head. Both related to Google and the Chromebook. As reported on Engadget “Google (is) offering $99 Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks to public schools” … Continue reading
Picking the right wireless for your school.
Prior to the deployment of our 1:1 Learning Initiative we spent over a year working on our infrastructure. Switches, firewalls, access points and other network devices/appliances were demoed and tested to handle DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, content filtering and connectivity. We … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Technical
Tagged aerohive, Apple, aruba, cisco, content filtering, dhcp, dns, infoblox, let's think wireless, ltw, meru, open directory, precision consulting, radius, ruckus, trapeze, untangle, xirrus
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Your school, COPPA and Evernote.
In the summer of 2011 while attending the Lausanne Laptop Institute (now the Lausanne Learning Institute) I was having a conversation with my friend Hiram Cuevas (@cuevash) about our use of Evernote. He told me how excited he was to … Continue reading
Posted in COPPA, Evernote, Teaching & Learning
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Evernote Forever on the Out of School podcast.
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
Posted in 1to1, Evernote
Tagged Android, Bradley Chambers, explain everything, Fraser Speirs, ios, ipad, Out of School
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