Help Desk Team Member Spotlight: TJ Horgan

Today’s Help Desk Team Member Spotlight is on senior TJ Horgan. TJ brings technology experience and knowledge to Help Desk as well as strong leadership skills. He is currently the President of the Student Council Executive Board, the National Honor Society and is also the Editor-In-Chief of the BHS paper “The Devil’s Advocate.” He’s also…

Getting Pics From Drive to Blogger, on a Chromebook

This post originally appeared on Ben Schersten’s blog Getting Pics From Drive to Blogger, on a Chromebook Posted on September 16, 2014 If you’ve ever tried to get pictures from your Google Drive to your (Google-owned) Blogger blog, you know that it can be a hassle. All the Google apps seem to play well together, except Blogger.…

Help Desk Team Member Spotlight: Mira Mehdi

Mira is entering her second year as a member of the Burlington High School Student Technology Integration and Innovation course. She joined the program last January and quickly established herself as the resident iMovie expert. In addition, she experimented with Google Glass, the augmented reality app Aurasma, and offered her perspective on Chrome versus Safari.…

App to Potentially Revamp BHS Help Desk

Three years since the BHS 1:1 iPad initiative was first put into action, there has been very little discrepancy over the fact that the integration of technology at BHS has done wonders for both students and staff in terms convenience and efficiency.  However, simply because the initiative has yielded positive results and has impacted student…

Help Desk Team Member Spotlight: Hammad Sadiq

This year’s Help Desk staff is, in a word, amazing. I have sixteen students who are already exceeding my expectations. I am confident we will have a very successful first semester in terms of assisting students and teachers with integrating technology in the classroom. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be featuring Help Desk students…

Create Google Presentations on the iPad…Sort Of

When I heard the news late yesterday that the ability to CREATE a Google Slide presentation was finally released for the iPad and iPhone I was ecstatic. I, along with many other educational technology integrators, had been waiting for this capability for months, especially those of us working in 1:1 iPad schools that are also…