Each BHS Help Desk student maintains his or her own blog which chronicles their learning experiences in the program. A central component of the individual blog is the weekly reflection. Weekly reflections are a summary of the skills and knowledge each student is developing throughout the course. Students are asked to identify and analyze situations…
Today’s Help Desk Team Member Spotlight is on four seniors who are new to the BHS Help Desk program. I am pleased to introduce Dipen Patel, Nikhil Thakkar, Michael Seleman, and Manas Purohit. All four of these students are eager and excited to help students and teachers with any and all technology issues they may be experiencing,…
Three years since the BHS 1:1 iPad initiative was first put into action, there has been very little discrepancy over the fact that the integration of technology at BHS has done wonders for both students and staff in terms convenience and efficiency. However, simply because the initiative has yielded positive results and has impacted student…
This year’s Help Desk staff is, in a word, amazing. I have sixteen students who are already exceeding my expectations. I am confident we will have a very successful first semester in terms of assisting students and teachers with integrating technology in the classroom. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be featuring Help Desk students…
With summer vacation just a few weeks away it can be easy for students to become distracted, but teachers are still focused on preparing students for final exams. Many teachers look for ways to make review sessions fun and engaging and use tools such as Socrative. As an alternative, teachers can try the free, web-based, device…
Join us tomorrow for Help Desk Live Episode 12. Help Desk junior Mira Mehdi will be hosting the show and discussing student-run tech teams with Geoff St. Cyr and Jonathan Werner. Geoff oversees a k-5 student-run tech team in Belfast, Maine and starting in the fall of 2014, Jonathan will be running a high-school level…
The Burlington High School Help Desk is very excited to have educators from all across the country visit our school as a part of this year’s New England 1:1 Summit. Guests will have the opportunity to observe our 1:1 teaching and learning environment while school is in session. There will be approximately 100 visitors joining us…
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