With summer just a few weeks away, I wanted to share a broad range of hands-on, high quality professional development opportunities for Burlington teachers, staff, and administrators to explore. Whether you are looking for collaborative, teacher-led formats such as an Edcamp, want time to experiment with technology tools that can engage all learners and solve real…
“I wanna be the very best- like no one ever was.” Those were the words that Shams Shaikh, the Burlington High School Class of 2014 valedictorian (an official BHS Help Desk alumnus) asked his classmates to repeat at the conclusion of his graduation speech which he delivered on Sunday, June 8th. Using the famous quote…
Flowboard is a free app for the iPad (also works on the web) that allows you to create interactive, multimedia presentations. Through simple touch gestures, you can add images, text and video to create a highly visual and engaging presentation or tell a powerful digital story. Flowboard is filled with loads of great features and students will…
With summer vacation just a few weeks away it can be easy for students to become distracted, but teachers are still focused on preparing students for final exams. Many teachers look for ways to make review sessions fun and engaging and use tools such as Socrative. As an alternative, teachers can try the free, web-based, device…
As finals approach, FlipQuiz is the perfect tool to use for reviewing course material with your students. It’s simple and free, but it will revolutionize the way teachers make review games. With FlipQuiz, all you have to do is sign up for free and you can begin making games or playing games made by other users.…
Friday, May 30th is the 14th episode of Help Desk Live, Season One. For the final episode (stay tuned for a possible bonus episode in June) I am excited to put the spotlight on Burlington and the exceptional work our elementary and middle school teachers have been doing in their 1:1 classrooms. I’ll be talking with…
To describe the new Adobe Voice iPad app in one word, it would be awesome. Adobe Voice Overview Adobe Voice is an exciting new app for the iPad which combines images, music, text, and voice to create animated videos on any topic imaginable. It is a great tool to use in a 1:1 classroom for digital…
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