Help Desk Live: Episode 5

Join us Friday, March 7th from 11:30 to 12:00 p.m. for Episode 5 of Help Desk Live! In this week’s episode, show hosts will be Nathan and Amit. Our focus will be on Google Glass in educaiton. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to talk with three Google Glass Explorers and learn how they…

Online Learning with VHS

Learning Online. These two words often carry a negative connotation, and it is not uncanny to see people shy away from what may be a very useful way of education, not to mention a way that is up and coming this century. Enrolled in two online classes, Economics and Statistics, I would truly like to provide a true…

Google Drive Tech Tips: Series I

First year Help Desk student John Vallerand will be featuring a weekly series of quick tech tips. Series I of Google Drive Tech Tips focus on Google Docs and include: 1. Creating a document in drive 2. Basic formatting tips 3. How to use a hanging indent for a bibliography page Creating a Google Doc:…

Help Desk Live Episode 4: Google Visits BHS!

Join us for Help Desk Live Episode 4 Friday, February 28th from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. This week’s guest is Michael Westervelt who will be joining us from the Google office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This week’s show hosts will be Help Desk students Nick, Trevor, and Jake. Michael is an Account Manager at Google in large client…

iMovie Filming Tips

In addition to the bi-monthly “How Do I Do That Sessions?” the BPS EdTech team is offering a new program for all Burlington Public School teachers to earn three hours of in-service credit: the App Explorer Challenge. The first challenge is to learn the iMovie iPad app. Completed projects are to be submitted to District Technology…

Help Desk Live-Episode 3

Help Desk Live-Episode 3 is this Friday, February 14th from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. The link to this public event can be found here or you can watch the event stream live on YouTube (see video below) Help Desk is pleased to welcome Sara Dionne to Help Desk Live-Episode 3. Sara is a Senior Director, Talent Operations for Comcast Cable…

BHS TED-ED: Meet the Members

“I hope to be exposed to a better platform of sharing ideas and innovation through TED because I’ve watched a lot of videos of theirs and I see all of these people coming up with new techniques to help the world progress so I want to contribute to that.”   This was junior Divyansh Shah’s…