Donny & Kevin Take on Gillette!

Editor’s note: The following post originally appeared on the blog of BHS senior Donny Boermeester and BHS junior Kevin Lynch. Help Desk Takes on Gillette ​On, Wednesday October 21 2015 Ms. Scheffer took me and another student of the Burlington Help Desk, Kevin Lynch, to Gillette Stadium to present our student run Genius Bar at the…

Presenting at the First National Digital Citizenship Summit

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the blog of Timmy Sullivan Digital Citizenship Best Practices for College and Career Ready Students: An Inside Look at the Digital Citizenship Summit Having just arrived home from presenting at the nation’s first Digital Citizenship Summit, I am eager to share the highlights of today’s event. Unfortunately, I arrived a…

Student Blogs 2015-2016

Help Desk students are responsible for maintaining their own personal blogs which feature reflections on the skills and knowledge they are developing throughout the course. Student blogs also contain educational technology training resources, app reviews, and individual learning endeavor updates. Please take some time to explore the blogs of the Help Desk students. They look…

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…

Help Desk Live-Episode 26: Leading Digital Change

Season Three of Help Desk Live premieres on Friday, September 18th at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Second year Help Desk staff member and TEDxYouth@BHS speaker Timmy Sullivan will facilitate a conversation about leading digital change in our schools with Dr. Marialice Curran, co-founder of the nation’s first Digital Citizenship Summit taking place on Saturday, October…

Meet the 15-16 BHS Help Desk Staff!

It gives me great pleasure to formally introduce the 2015-2016 Help Desk staff. This year’s student geniuses are eager to apply their technology skills, knowledge, and experiences to assist the students, teachers, administrators, and staff of Burlington High School with any and all of their technology needs. This year’s Genius Bar crew has already been…

The Maker Studio at BHS Help Desk

This past March, BHS Help Desk student Cat Hoyt connected with Laura Fleming and Diana Rendina on Digital Learning Day and learned about their successful makerspace programs. Since then, the BHS Help Desk students have been busy designing a makerspace of their own. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the BHS Art Department, specifically art…