Yesterday, BHS opened it’s doors to approximately 75 visitors from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Educators, administrators, department chairs, and IT professionals joined us to learn about our 1:1 environment and the “F” words we live by. Foresight, Financial, & Future Patrick Larkin, Burlington Public Schools Assistant Superintendent of Learning, provided our guests with background…
The following Dropbox tutorials originally appeared on Dipen Patel’s blog Gaining More Cloud Storage for Dropbox My fifth video in my Introduction to Dropbox series covers how to earn extra storage for your account. Currently, I have 3.25 gigabytes, because I have successfully completed many of the methods of provided my Dropbox to receive more…
The 2014-2015 Burlington High School Help Desk staff continues to produce exemplary work and today’s post serves as yet another example of student creative genius and innovation. After only a brief consultation regarding giving the 2014-2015 Help Desk Live logo a fresh new look, as well as the creation of a brand new introductory trailer to…
I am pleased to announce the BPS Edtech November Tech Savvy Parenting Night: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 5:30-7:30 Converting to the Cloud Converting to the Cloud is the November BPS “Digital Bootcamp Series” event and is designed to educate K-12 parents on the latest trends in educational technology. MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR: Tuesday, November 18th Library Commons…
Thanks to Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets, as well as two powerful Add-Ons in Forms, teachers can now schedule parent/teacher conferences in minutes. Not only does using Google Apps save you paper, it is much more organized and efficient. The video tutorial embedded below walks you through the process, start to finish. If you prefer…
A new component to the BHS Help Desk curriculum (introduced last year) is the Individual Learning Endeavor, or the 20% time project. Inspired in part by Google’s 20% time project, as well as the pilot program at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the ILE allows Help Desk students to devote 20%…
Confidence to Connect Last Thursday, ten BHS Help Desk students attended the annual Mass CUE Conference at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. For most students, this was the first time they had ever attended an educational technology conference. Based on their reflections of the day (linked at the bottom of this post) as well as…
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