Gear Heart

A video put together to show the Help Desk’s new print “Gear Heart” in action. The Heart itself is made of seventeen red, hallow PLA pieces. Just like a real heart, it is capable of breaking, and inflicting pain.

123D Catch App.

Just imagine, anything you can see can be made into a 3D object on your iPad. This is what the developers at Autodesk have been working on and putting out in the app 123D Catch. Along with several other 3D developing apps on the iPad by Autodesk, this one in particular is interesting because the…

Setting Up A Projector

Here is a quick video guiding you through the setup of a projector. Just a few quick notes please make sure that when you plug the VGA into the back of the projector it is in the either Computer 1 or Computer 2 which are the blue ports.  If you have questions or need assistance please…

A brief MASSCue Reflection

by: Hannah Lienhard MassCUE was personally the first major conference I had been to. Not that it was particularly large, it was merely the first conference I had been to that was almost completely vendor oriented. At BPSCON 2012, we were gearing up for the coming school year by nipping off problems at the bud,…

Importance of Passwords

Everyone in the world has a password whether it is to log in to facebook or to unlock your Iphone. The only thing that is stopping you from identity thieves and hackers is a word or a sequence of numbers. There are 72 options for a one character password, the equation for finding the possibilities of…

How Student Help Desks Support Mobile Devices

Originally posted in Center for Digital Education by Tanya Roscorla on October 18, 2012 High schools are creating student-run help desks to deal with larger numbers of mobile devices. A thousand miles apart, Niles West High School in Skokie, Ill., and Burlington High School in Massachusetts each have student teams handle problems with mobile devices.…