Day 45 - Burlington High School, Student Help Desk

How to make student groups/ blocks in g-mail

In the video below we have created a step by step instructional video on how to make student groups/ blocks in g-mail.


-Video produced and posted by,BHS Help Desk Student Sidd Chhayani 

Day 44 - Burlingtion High School, Student Help Desk

Stick and find bluetooth powered stickers

We have all lost one thing that we really need to find to help us with our daily lives. For some people you have maybe lost your keys, or maybe the TV remote. Well now there is a solution to find them with ease. This product from indiegogo, and is made to stick to any object. The size of a quarter, its battery lasts for a year, and has a range of up to 100 feet. The app sends out a signal to your phone if you are trying to find the lost object. It is not on the app store yet, but when the product is for sale, the application will be published. You can make the sticker have an audible buzzer, or a blinking red light so you can find it in the dark. The stick and find will sell for $49.95 for a package of two. Watch the video below to learn more.


 

Day 38 - Bryan Strange, Burlington High School Senior

Workflowy app review:

Ever find yourself unorganized and flustered with daily tasks?  Your problem is solved with Workflowy, an online tool to help keep your life organized.  Workflowy has also developed an app for all of your IOS devices for on-the-go!

Workflowy allows you to make a list of any tasks that need to be completed.  For tasks that have multiple steps, you can make sub pages for each item and add greater elaboration.  For example, if your daily tasks include grocery shopping, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the house.  You simply create the list.  After creating your list, select the task you would like to add and Workflowy allows you to add individual steps to make sure that all of your tasks get done right and on time.



As you can see above I have a list that is titled “Mow the lawn” which is my main task.  A detail for that task would be “get gas” which is indicated on a sub menu.  Then the third task is to get the right gasoline which is indicated in another sub menu.  This app is a great app for keeping your thoughts in line and organized.  This app is also a great tool for note-taking and being able to organize your notes into single subjects. For instance, you could add a list called "mandatory assignments" and then clarify the steps it would take to complete the assignments.

Day 27 - Yash Kamani, Burlington High School Sophomore

MASSCue Reflection

A few weeks ago, we, as members of the BHS student help desk, were presented the opportunity to visit and present at Masscue 2012. This conference was held in the club suites inside Gillette Stadium. The help desk crew got to go down on the 24th to give an hour long presentation on our help desk course and how it works within our school.

Our presentation lasted about an hour in one of the suites on top of Gillette Stadium. We made our presentation a panel discussion type event. At the beginning, our instructors, Mr. Andy Marcinek and Mr. Tim Calvin presented a small keynote to the audience describing the course. The keynote lasted about fifteen minutes and we then made our way into the panel discussion with questions from our audience and answers from us, the students.


The whole event was well organized and the Mass Cue team was very helpful. There were a variety of cool and helpful tools available from different vendors. The event was mainly vendor based with different vendors attempting to sell their ideas, tools or technologies. There were quite a few interesting ideas that I thought would actually be very useful. At the same time there were ideas and tools that seemed unnecessary and costly in any learning environment.

This was my first experience at any education conference of any sort. Overall I really enjoyed it. There was a formal atmosphere at the conference, but the events and people really made it seem casual and comfortable. A Patriots Practice sighting made the day all the more better. I would strongly recommend students attending a Mass Cue Conference sometime in the future for anyone interested in new ideas or technology in the education field.