Category Archives: Teaching & Learning

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 device management to teach responsible use.

Posted on 02/05/2013 by William Stites

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 →

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Enough with the jargon! Simplify and talk about Teaching and Learning.

Posted on 01/27/2013 by William Stites

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 →

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Learning from and overcoming the past to move forward.

Posted on 01/05/2013 by William Stites

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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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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The Tale of Two Posts. Using analytics to talk about writing.

Posted on 11/12/2012 by William Stites

When I talk to teach­ers about get­ting them to have their stu­dent write and pub­lish online I talk about a num­ber of things. When you look at the research and writ­ing process the last part of that process is publishing. Writing … 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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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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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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