Tag Archives: Twitter

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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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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Zero Inbox: Keeping yourself sane and organized.

Posted on 02/05/2011 by William Stites

For the past week I’ve tweet­ing about keep­ing my email inbox at ZERO and have got­ten some funny com­ments back. Some threat­en­ing, some jeal­ous, some were just mean, but really… why the hell was I tweet­ing about this?! Orga­ni­za­tion. A full … Con­tinue read­ing →

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#edipad for the iPad in Education

Posted on 01/18/2011 by William Stites

I don’t know about you but I am tired of get­ting spammed by Twit­ter­bots every time I type the hash­tag #ipad into a tweet! So… I am sug­gest­ing some­thing sim­ple for all of you out there that would like to carry … Con­tinue read­ing →

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My day at EdCamp NYC 2010

Posted on 12/05/2010 by William Stites

What do you do on a beau­ti­ful Sat­ur­day in Decem­ber in New York City? You attend EdCamp NYC of course!  On Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 4th that is exactly what I did and what a great day it was. EdCamp NYC “is an … 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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