December 7th through the 11th was the third annual Hour of Code at Burlington High School. Last year and in 2013, BHS students (Help Desk students in particular) were exposed to computer science through exploring the Hour of Code tutorials. This year the Hour of Code continues to expand at BHS. We had approximately 475 students school…
On Monday, December 7th the Hour of Code was in full force at Burlington High School. The day began first period when 20 of Mr. Zeigler’s Geometry students came to the Help Desk to embark on their first Hour of Code experience. A few hours later, the Hour of Code continued when math teachers Ms.…
The BPS Edtech Team is pleased to announce our November Tech Savvy Parenting Night (TSPN) will be held on Wednesday, November 18th at 6:00 pm in the Marshall Simonds Middle School Library Commons. As we did for our October event, which can be viewed here, the focus of our November TSPN will once again be…
On Tuesday, October 27th, I had the opportunity to facilitate the very first virtual TSPN (Tech Savvy Parenting Night) sponsored by the BPS Edtech team. For our inaugural event, part of our ongoing “Digital Bootcamp Series,” we were fortunate to have Sarah Thomas (@sarahdateechur) join us for a conversation about cyber security. Sarah is a…
The BPS Edtech team is excited to announce that for the first time ever we will be offering a virtual Tech Savvy Parenting Night on Tuesday, October 27th beginning at 7:00 p.m. Tech Savvy Parenting Nights Have Gone Virtual! This month, BPS parents can watch the event streaming live, from any Internet connected device, via YouTube…
The BPS Edtech Team is thrilled to announce the first Tech Savvy Parenting Night of the 2015-2016 school year. This event is part of our ongoing Digital Bootcamp Series which was launched last year. Our September parent tech night, taking place on Monday, September 28th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Marshall Simonds Middle School Library…
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the blog of Sidd Srivastava “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” -Christopher McCandless. Being new to place changes everything in…
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