Category Archives: Evernote

Your school, COPPA and Evernote.

Posted on 11/21/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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Evernote Forever on the Out of School podcast.

Posted on 11/21/2012 by William Stites

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 →

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Educators! Stacked Shared Notebooks in Evernote 5 is the BEST!

Posted on 11/19/2012 by William Stites

Ever­note recently release a sub­stan­tial update with 5.0.  There are some really cool new fea­tures, some amaz­ing nav­i­ga­tional changes and a much cleaner and appeal­ing user expe­ri­ence. After watch­ing the video you  get a quick glimpse into some of what … 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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Evernote Trunk Conference: Rethinking Education (Video)

Posted on 09/30/2012 by William Stites

On August 24th, 2012, Reshan Richards (@reshanrichards) and I, along with Rob Van Nood (@evernotefolios) had the oppor­tu­nity to speak at the Ever­note Trunk Con­fer­ence on “Rethink­ing Edu­ca­tion” with Ever­note. Reshan and I dis­cussed how we came to use Ever­note … Con­tinue read­ing →

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What I did on my Summer Vacation.

Posted on 09/29/2012 by William Stites

With sum­mer is offi­cially over I feel it’s about time for that recap every per­son has asked to write at some point in their lives… What I did on my Sum­mer Vaca­tion. While this isn’t nec­es­sar­ily going to be about … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Cloud Computing in Education

Posted on 07/12/2012 by William Stites

[Orig­i­nally posted else­where on 7/28/2009, but the topic came up again in a con­ver­sa­tion and thought to move the post here.] Cloud com­put­ing is described by Wikipedia as: Cloud com­put­ing is a style of com­put­ing in which dynam­i­cally scal­able and often vir­tu­al­ized resources are pro­vided as a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Talking all things Evernote on Classroom 2.0

Posted on 02/05/2012 by William Stites

On Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th, 2012 I had the plea­sure of tak­ing part in a Class­room 2.0 Live webi­nar where we were talk­ing about all things Ever­note. I spoke for about 40 min­utes and took ques­tions for about another 40 or … 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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A conversation about Evernote and our 1:1 initiative.

Posted on 10/14/2011 by William Stites

In the Spring of 2011 I had the plea­sure of join­ing two of my col­leagues (Jenny Zagariello — @jennyz49 & Chris­t­ian Ely — @christian67 ) in a con­ver­sa­tion with Andrew Sinkov (@sinkov), VP of Mar­ket­ing for Ever­note in NYC to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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