The Burlington High School Help Desk is thrilled to be teaming up with Marialice Curran, and the rest of the digital citizenship moderation team, and is sponsoring the new challenge-based digital citizenship Twitter chats. Rather than the typical monthly chat, we have decided to “go rogue.” We are going to stop simply talking about digital…
Editor’s Note: Recently, Dr. Marialice Curran shared the article “8 Ways Kids Are Using Instagram to Bully” via Twitter along with a challenge to schools nationwide to provide a rebuttal. I decided to take Marialice up on this challenge. I assigned the Help Desk students of Burlington High School to read the article and write a…
This week’s Free App Friday recommendation is Snapchat. Yes, Snapchat! We are thrilled to be launching a brand new district-wide Snapchat account and encourage all students, teachers, and parents who are Snapchat users to add us as a friend. Our Snapchat user name is burly_schools. If you are not currently active on Snapchat, fear not!…
The BPS Edtech Team is thrilled to announce the first Tech Savvy Parenting Night of the 2015-2016 school year. This event is part of our ongoing Digital Bootcamp Series which was launched last year. Our September parent tech night, taking place on Monday, September 28th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Marshall Simonds Middle School Library…
Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on the blog of BHS Help Desk junior Jhymon Moodie. To learn more about VloggedIn, and how it can help your students create a positive digital footprint, visit their site at vloggedin.com Yesterday, I co-hosted episode 25 of Help Desk Live. It was a fun process and it was even better…
Help Desk Live- Episode 18 features an interview with Susan Bearden, developer of the app TweechMe. Seniors TJ Horgan and Michael Seleman conduct a great interview and learn about how Tweechme can assist educators in learning how to use Twitter.
Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on the blog of Nikhil Thakkar. Nikhil is a senior and first year member of the Help Desk. Nikhil, as with the rest of the BHS Help Desk staff, effectively troubleshoots devices and can solve many technical problems. However, he also assists with meaningful integration of technology in the…
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