On behalf of the BHS Help Desk, I would like to welcome the Class of 2019 to Burlington High School! You are joining an incredible community of supportive teachers, administrators, and staff and we are all here to help you have a successful freshman year! Please do not hesitate to visit the Help Desk, located…
This past March, BHS Help Desk student Cat Hoyt connected with Laura Fleming and Diana Rendina on Digital Learning Day and learned about their successful makerspace programs. Since then, the BHS Help Desk students have been busy designing a makerspace of their own. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the BHS Art Department, specifically art…
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the BPS Edtech blog. Burlington High School incoming freshmen from the Class of 2019 will receive their iPads during distribution sessions this August. Each student MUST attend with a parent or guardian. Students and parents/guardians will review the Burlington Public Schools Acceptable Use Policy, Device Responsibility Policy, and…
Adobe Slate is a free story telling app for the iPad. The Good: I found Adobe Slate to be very intuitive. The app contains great projects to explore and get ideas from. The app allows users to insert pictures and text to tell a story about any topic imaginable. Since the app is very easy to…
Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on the blog of BHS Help Desk junior Jhymon Moodie. To learn more about VloggedIn, and how it can help your students create a positive digital footprint, visit their site at vloggedin.com Yesterday, I co-hosted episode 25 of Help Desk Live. It was a fun process and it was even better…
In Help Desk Live Episode 24, Timmy Sullivan spoke with Justin Chando, CEO and Founder of Chalk Up. Chalk Up is a new learning management system with seamless Google Apps for Education integration. In this episode, Justin discusses Chalk Up’s features which, among others, includes a powerful, built-in rubric creation tool to make assessment of student work a…
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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