Free App Friday- 30/30

Editor’s Note: Today’s Free App Friday is being brought to your by BHS junior and first year staff member Kevin Lynch. This post originally appeared on Kevin’s blog. Free App Friday! Our Free App of the week is 30/30 by Binary Hammer. This application is a easy maneuverable task manager that will organize any busy…

Now You Can Share & Embed Your Google Classroom Calendars with Parents!

Yesterday, Google released another new feature for Classroom that many teachers have been requesting. Calendar integration with Google Classroom has finally arrived! This latest update automatically creates a Calendar for each Classroom which can then be made public and embedded into a website or blog. This answers the, “but parents can’t access Classroom” dilemma. Parents…

Mr. Milton Mixes it Up with Explain Everything

Burlington High School Social Studies teacher Mike Milton is bringing innovation, creativity, and elements of digital citizenship into his classroom this year with an original Social Studies Digital Remix Project. As a talented digital mashup artist himself, Mr. Milton has been experimenting with photo editing for quite some time and for the 15-16 school year,…

Chrome Extensions- Week of September 21st

This week’s Chrome Extensions include: Evernote Web Clipper (4,318,225 users) Allows you to save anything from the web directly to your Evernote account. Check out this guide for using Evernote Web Clipper (includes video tutorial) Diigo Web Collector- Capture and Annotate (86,180 users)  An excellent curation and research tool for teachers and students alike. Users can bookmark links…

Free App Friday: Adobe Clip

Today is the first “Free App Friday” post where the Help Desk will highlight a new, free (and fun!) app that we feel is worth integrating into your 1:1 classroom. While Google Apps will continue to serve as our core group of applications for students and teachers, there are some powerful iPad apps which promote…

App Review of Adobe Slate

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…