Editor’s Note: Senior Blogger Amit Patel provides an overview of the student response system InfuseLearning. If you like Socrative, you’ll love InfuseLearning! InfuseLearning is a software platform that allows teachers to engage every student on any device. Think Socrative. However, InfuseLearning has many more powerful tools available like drawing, link sharing, and a variety of…
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. …
Ever found presentations, projects, or pictures bland and unappealing? As a student, I have found a way to make my images pop and convey the information that is needed. The Need: Students in today’s day and age crave information. But beyond that, they want to be engaged. Students are always asking themselves, “what’s next…
Editor’s Note: Senior Help Desk Blogger Nick Merlino shares 10 useful tips and tricks on how to make the most out of your iPad’s battery life. Come down to Help Desk and work with our student geniuses on any and all things i-related! In a 1:1 educational environment, only one thing can stop the lesson…
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…
Help Desk is honored to feature Angela Maiers as our second guest blogger. Founder and President of Maiers Education Services, a consulting firm headquartered in Clive, Iowa, Angela offers just-in-time consultation services to schools, organizations, and individuals seeking to use technology and social media to leverage human capital and production goals. Dear Generation NOW, There…
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