On Friday, February 6th, BHS Help Desk students Jyhmon Moodie and Manas Purohit traveled to Medfield High School with Diana Marcus, Burlington Public School’s Mobile Learning Coach and led a session at Medfield’s 3rd annual Digital Learning Day Conference. This free, full-day professional development conference, a primer for the official Digital Learning Day on…
On behalf of the BPS Edtech Team, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we will be holding the 2nd annual New England Student Showcase (NESS) as part of this year’s New England 1:1 Summit. All who attended the inaugural NESS last year agreed that it was one of the highlights of the Summit.…
Note: A link to the original post explaining the ConnectED Reading BINGO Event can be found here. The BHS Help Desk would like to encourage teachers throughout the district to participate in February’s “I Love to Read Month.” Schools across the nation have been invited to participate in this highly creative, “epic reading event” created by…
This past weekend, BHS students Cat Hoyt, Kristin Johnson, Mira Mehdi, and Kelsey O’Brien represented the Burlington High School Help Desk program and attended EduCon 2.7, one of the country’s most prestigious educational conferences, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Shortly after presenting on Augmented Reality in the Classroom with Mira at the MassCUE conference back in October,…
Editor’s note: The post below originally appeared on BHS Help Desk Senior Cat Hoyt. At the end of the post, I have embedded the video which Cat created for her 20% time project. I am incredibly proud of the initiative Cat took to create this video. She dedicated many hours of filming and editing to…
The following post originally appeared on the blog of BHS Help Desk senior Kristin Johnson I AM NOT A BARBIE GIRL Almost every little girl growing up was given a Barbie doll, whether it was a princess, an everyday, or a career doll, society has influenced girls to strive to fit the model of a Barbie Doll.…
This post originally appeared on the blog of BHS junior Timmy Sullivan CMTC: UTILIZING STUDENT GENIUS On Wednesday, December 3rd, I was privileged to speak in front of educators and technology integrators about Burlington High School’s Help Desk: a student-run genius bar. The presentation was held in New Hampshire at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference. Here, hundreds of…
Burlington High School Help Desk 