Join us for Help Desk Live Episode 4 Friday, February 28th from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. This week’s guest is Michael Westervelt who will be joining us from the Google office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This week’s show hosts will be Help Desk students Nick, Trevor, and Jake. Michael is an Account Manager at Google in large client…
Help Desk Live-Episode 2 aired on Friday, February 7th and was co-hosted by first year Help Desk staff members Mira Mehdi and Danny Piotti. The episode focused on the importance of digital citizenship education and featured our first guest, Dr. Marialice Curran. Like Dr. Curran, Burlington Public Schools believes the best approach to help students…
What is Snapguide? Snapguide is a free web and iOS application that allows you to create basic “how to” guides. Here is a link to the Snapguide that I easily made on separating differential equations. Separating differential equations in calculus might sound scary but with Snapguide, it’s a breeze! The key to Snapguide is its simplicity. After…
Editor’s Note: This post, along with the HD Live logo was created by Help Desk students Harsh & Amit What is Help Desk Live? A live Google broadcast about a different topic every week on Friday. What happens to the broadcast afterwards? It’s uploaded to the Help Desk YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure. Each week,…
Ashay Lokhande and Michelle Sahagian both had the opportunity to wear Google Glass as they performed a cross examination of witnesses and delivered the closing argument during Ms. Fishel’s AP World History Mongol trial project. When I entered Ms. Fishel’s class with Glass and asked who wanted to try it, almost every student in the…
In addition to our bi-monthly How Do I Do That Sessions, the BPS EdTech Team recently announced the App Explorer Challenge. This is a new way for teachers to earn 3 hours of Inservice credit. The first challenge is to create a 2-3 minute movie using the iMovie iPad app. Help Desk is eager and excited…
Editor’s Note: I am pleased to feature a guest post authored by BHS students Shivesh Shah, Ashay Lokhande, Arvind Pasupuleti, Jay Patel, Kumaraman Srivastav, and Kush Patel which highlights the way they are using their iPads as members of Chuck Wood’s AP Biology class. Over the course of the last three years, Burlington High School…
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