Category Archives: Technical

Pressing Pause on Lion

Posted on 01/21/2012 by William Stites

[UPDATED — 1/26/2012] There is doing some­thing and doing some­thing right. When you take on any project, par­tic­u­larly one effect­ing 1000+ peo­ple you bet­ter make sure you’re doing it as right as pos­si­ble. My school is a year and a half … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I say 1:1, you say…

Posted on 01/20/2012 by William Stites

NOTE: Orig­i­nally posted on the Edu­ca­tional Col­lab­o­ra­tors blog on 1/18/2012 — Update for Ultra­books below — 1/21/2012. When you hear peo­ple talk­ing about a 1:1 pro­gram they could be talk­ing about a lot of dif­fer­ent things. A few years ago … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Where’s iDVD? Apple’s move away from optical media.

Posted on 12/24/2011 by William Stites

It’s the day before Christ­mas and all the through the house not a crea­ture is stir­ring… except for my cousin who is try­ing to put together a DVD project on a brand new Lion iMac and couldn’t find iDVD. With … 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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Rogue IT in Education and the BYOD, DIY model.

Posted on 10/25/2011 by William Stites

Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) of The Sci­ence Lead­er­ship Acad­emy and founder of EduCon, said of tech­nol­ogy: “Tech­nol­ogy must be like Oxy­gen: ubiq­ui­tous, nec­es­sary, and invis­i­ble.” I couldn’t agree more with this state­ment, but, as a Direc­tor of Tech­nol­ogy, I also need to … 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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Moodle Services Split:Part 2

Posted on 09/13/2011 by William Stites

  Our goal was to split out the Apache & PHP ser­vices from the MySQL ser­vice  run­ning on our Moo­dle server. The deci­sion to do this was to address per­for­mance issue expe­ri­ence on the open­ing day of school after upgrad­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers

Posted on 09/09/2011 by William Stites

Early this year we moved our Moo­dle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Mov­ing to Moo­dle 2.0:Pt. 1 — The Deci­sion) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were con­cerned with a num­ber of  issues, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Managing Your Evernote Sponsored Group

Posted on 09/07/2011 by William Stites

So it’s the start of another school year and what’s become part of my new rou­tine for the start of the year is approv­ing all of our Ever­note Pre­mium accounts. The process is a fairly sim­ple one.  We have a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The new OS wars… moving beyond the desktop. Are you ready?

Posted on 07/14/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t to long ago that when you were talk­ing about what tech­nol­ogy to use in school the dis­cus­sions — or argu­ments — were about whether you were a Mac or PC school. These same con­ver­sa­tions hap­pened as schools con­sid­ered … Con­tinue read­ing →

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