“Search on Smarty Pants.” Improve Search Skills with Google Scholar & A Google A Day

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: Educators across all content areas realize it is critical for students to be able to conduct effective online research. When students are assigned a research project for their classes, most go straight to Google. A better strategy, and one more suited for academic purposes, would be to help your students learn to use Google…

How to turn on automatic app updates in iOS 7

In the iOS 7 update, Apple rolled out a new option to automatically update apps. Instead of having to wait and ‘Update All’ apps, now you can get the latest app updates the moment they come out. Apple will ask how often you want the apps to update, and whether to update apps when you…

Student Blogs

Help Desk students are responsible for maintaining their own personal blogs which contain their weekly reflections on the technology problems they are solving, the research they are conducting related to innovations in educational technology, tech article & TED Talk analysis, and their progress towards achieving the learning goals of their Individual Learning Endeavors. Please take…

Mrs. Price: Teacher Profile

Mrs. Susan Price is a member of the BHS Foreign Language Department and a BHS alumni, class of 1976. Mrs. Price teaches both French and Spanish courses. She is a passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated teacher who cares deeply about her students and creating engaging, meaningful learning experiences for them. What’s so inspiring about Mrs. Price…

Twitter for Teachers

YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE: Follow Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga and yes, you’ll most likely get nothing out of it. Follow Jimmy Fallon, and you will be highly entertained! In fact, Jimmy is such a fan of Twitter, he is now speaking in hashtags! Now that it is in the mainstream media, Twitter has developed somewhat…

Curation Resources

Below are links and descriptions to useful curation resources that can be used for all disciplines. Using digital curation resources will assist in the transition to a paperless classroom and allow you as a teacher to focus on what you really care about…your content! Please visit the Help Desk if you would like one-to-one assistance on…

Movenote

MoveNote is an exciting free app that allows you to create “presentations with emotions. The app allows you to easily record audio and video to narrate images from your camera roll or files from Google Drive. You can then share your Movenote presentations through email or across various social networks including Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Watch…