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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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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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Dealing with COPPA: Compliance, the lies and the future.

Posted on 12/11/2011 by William Stites

I don’t know about you but I am strug­gling with the Children’s Online Pri­vacy Pro­tec­tion Act (COPPA). As we look to use dif­fer­ent online tools in the class­room we eval­u­ate them on the service(s) they pro­vide, whether they meet our … 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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EdCampNYC 2011 — It’s all about the conversations

Posted on 10/15/2011 by William Stites

On Octo­ber 1st I attended my sec­ond EdCamp­NYC.  It was a some­what gray day, but the weather  would be no indi­ca­tion of the qual­ity of the day ahead of me. I had attend the pre­vi­ous year (My Day at EdCamp­NYC 2010) … 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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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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