Senior Help Desk blogger Dora Kadish provides an overview of how teachers and students can integrate QR codes into the classroom.  No need for Morse code in this scenario. Just use your modern-day iPad or smartphone to scan it, and be sent instantly to the linked page! Now try it in the classroom. Why use…

Music is proven to increase concentration among students. While we work to bring the next idea to the table, we listen to music. It helps us, as a team, focus, get inspired, and get into the mood that technology requires. We hope that you like what were listening to in the tech lounge. We will…

Editor’s Note: At Burlington High School we are fortunate to have a school administration that understands the educational value of social media tools including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. In our most recent post, Senior Help Desk Blogger Jason Landry highlights specifically how teachers can use Instagram in the classroom in a variety of creative ways. …

Editor’s Note: Senior Help Desk Blogger, Xin Zhang once again provides us with an insightful (and always critical) analysis of the latest in educational technology. In this post, Xin reviews four different sreencasting tools: Quick Time, Screencast-O-Matic, Screenr, and Jing. Be sure to watch the excellent screencast at the conclusion of this post on how…

E-Mail 101  Despite advances in technology, e-mail has remained the preferred mode of communication in virtually all industries, including education, and it is not going anywhere anytime soon. Many of you attend schools which have transitioned to using Google Apps for Education and part of that involves having a school issued e-mail. As a result, you…

Students from Burlington High School in Massachusetts and Seabury Hall, located in Maui, Hawaii will be hosting a Google Hangout Thursday, November 7th from 1:40 to 2:10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Co-moderators, Nikhil Thakkar and Jasmine Doane, both of whom have been involved with TED, will facilitate a discussion centered around what it is like to…

Editor’s Note: In December of 2012, Help Desk blogger Tyler Desharnais authored an excellent post titled “The New Chromebook v. the iPad” which was quite popular. The post was shared via Twitter 126 times, Facebook 18 times, LinkedIn 5 times, and has had 4,062 views (and climbing) since it was first published, making it the second most…