How to Create an Apple ID

This school year, there were new and incoming BHS students who needed help with creating Apple ID’s since their Burlington email addresses could not be used in the App Store. Carl Larson created this tutorial on how to create an Apple ID in order to download apps from the App Store. You can find out more…

A Closer Look at Touchcast: The Camera & Effects Feature

Editor’s Note: The following two Touchcast tutorials originally appeared on the blog of BHS junior Dharini Kapadia. In the first tutorial, Dharini provides an in-depth look at the camera tool in Touchcast, including how to use the teleprompter. In the second tutorial, Dharini explains how to use the effects feature in Touchcast and how it…

iMovie Picture in Picture

Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the blog of BHS Help Desk senior Chandler Joyce. This is my first screencast about the “picture in picture” feature in iMovie. In less than three minutes, you will learn how to place two videos side by side. This is a feature that can benefit both students and…

Bring Science to Life with Your iPad

Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on Jyhmon Moodie’s blog Science teachers have many great options for teaching different science concepts using the iPad. There are apps which allow teachers and students to create presentations, complete labs, work on projects, and lots more! Over the past several weeks I have been researching different apps and…

Flowboard: Create & Publish Interactive Presentations from the iPad

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…

Keep Students Engaged: Try iMovie!

iMovie: The Perfect Way To End The School Year iMovie for the iPad is a fun, engaging and relatively intuitive app. It can be used by teachers and students in all content areas and grade levels to create movies or trailers. Movies allow you to combine videos, photos and music to make your own movie from scratch. Trailers, on the…