Category Archives: Administration & Management

TOP 10 things to consider when using a new service or online tool.

Posted on 02/26/2024 by William Stites

What am I agreeing to?Creating an account = signing a contract. Each time you accept or agree to “terms of service” (ToS), you sign a contract between you/the organization and the service. What information am I sharing?Each time you accept or … Continue reading →

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Using Common Sense Privacy Rating in Your School’s Vetting Process

Posted on 02/18/2024 by William Stites

As the conversations swirl around the application, services, vendor vetting, and AI data concerns (see Nick Marchese recent ATLIS post – AI tools that use data prompts and user data to train models), I am curious about the criteria used in … Continue reading →

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Using Finalsite and Google Forms to address complex form creation.

Posted on 09/27/2018 by William Stites

  We are often asked to create a variety of different forms for our institutions: donations, events, interests, just to name a few. Many of these can be built quite easily, but when you have a particularly complex form to build … Continue reading →

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5 tips for avoiding the blank stare when talking about data management.

Posted on 01/19/2018 by William Stites

We’ve all seen it, that moment when you start talking to people about a topic and you know they have no idea what you are talking about or don’t understand half of the words coming out of your mouth. You … Continue reading →

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Big Data? We need to focus on Little Data!

Posted on 02/03/2014 by William Stites

It’s everywhere!  People are talking about it in all aspects of life. Business, research, education, economics, socialnomics… you can’t escape it! BIG DATA! Data is everywhere and in everything that we do. If you’ve bought anything, searched for anything or signed … Continue reading →

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Success is about sharing.

Posted on 02/08/2013 by William Stites

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 →

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Using Minecraft in your school’s admission process.

Posted on 01/07/2013 by William Stites

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 … Continue reading →

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User data migration in our 1:1 scares me!

Posted on 11/18/2012 by William Stites

I am continually impressed by what we have achieved in our 1:1 Learning Initiative. We planned like no other school I know, we came out of the gates firing on all cylinders, all of our users – 4th-12th & faculty … Continue reading →

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School Community. In celebration and in crisis.

Posted on 11/10/2012 by William Stites

October brought our school two big community events. The Gathering, which is a full school (PK-12 – 3 campus) event where we showcase and celebrate all the school, it’ students and faculty have achieved over the year. Everyone comes together … Continue reading →

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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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