Category Archives: Social Media

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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WordCamp Philly Version 2.0

Posted on 11/11/2011 by William Stites

There are cer­tain things I look for­ward to in my job and the oppor­tu­ni­ties it affords me to learn new things and expand knowl­edge base.  Word­Camp Philly 2011 pro­vided me with the oppor­tu­nity and deliv­ered on learn­ing in spades. This … Con­tinue read­ing →

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edSocialMedia: When it’s time to use Twitter in the Classroom

Posted on 06/14/2011 by William Stites

Over on the edSo­cial­Me­dia site my lat­est blog post explores the ques­tion of when do you know if it’s the right time to use Twit­ter in the class­room. The post came after ready the CNN arti­cle “Twit­ter finds a place … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Evernote goes social.

Posted on 05/14/2011 by William Stites

If you’ve update Ever­note recently you might have missed the new arrow but­ton in the menu bar. Now I love this fea­ture and find it very inter­est­ing because Phil Libin has said that Ever­note is the anti-social, anti-viral soft­ware, that it’s … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Design for Distraction

Posted on 11/22/2010 by William Stites

The New York times story “Grow­ing Up Dig­i­tal, Wired for Dis­trac­tion” point out many of the ways that tech­nol­ogy is ingrained in our stu­dents lives and what that means for teach­ing, learn­ing and dis­trac­tion. But dis­trac­tion isn’t any­thing new. Whether … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I blog and why the hell should you care? (or My Expanded About Page)

Posted on 11/19/2010 by William Stites

“Who the hell is going to want to read what I have to say?” This was the ques­tion I asked myself when I started this blog. It is some­thing I con­sider each time I write. There are a mil­lion blogs out there … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Untag me

Posted on 11/15/2010 by William Stites

I was walk­ing through the halls of our mid­dle school one after­noon and I saw a stu­dent wear­ing this shirt.

I thought to myself what a sim­ple state­ment and what a pow­er­ful mes­sage. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Expanding the Definition of Community to a Global Community

Posted on 11/04/2010 by William Stites

Is com­mu­nity just the area in which you live and work or is it some­thing more? Wikipedia’s def­i­n­i­tion of com­mu­nity is as fol­lows: Tra­di­tion­ally a “com­mu­nity” has been defined as a group of inter­act­ing peo­ple liv­ing in a com­mon loca­tion. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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