Mid Years+Learn Launch Conference!
After a long battle with Mid-Year Exams I looked forward to the trip to Harvard University for the Learn Launch Conference! Mid- Years are always a tough go but once the week was over and I could concentrate on the Conference I was wicked excited!
The Learn Launch Conferences gather a bunch of technology based programs from all over New England to bring everyone together and share ideas on how future classrooms should be like. The Burlington High School Help Desk was proudly there representing Burlington Public Schools and our 1:1 Apple iPad program that we have. Donny, Timmy, Kevin, and I all explained the idea of the Help Desk and all that we do to tons and tons of teachers from other schools. Teachers from Duxbury, Andover, and Ipswich were marveled by all that we do to not only help students here at the high school, but also that we document everything that we do. We showed our awesome classroom to everyone as well because of Donny's 3D Model of the Help Desk that he made as his first semester ILE. There were sixteen booths at the Learn Launch Conference and every single person from every other booth made sure they stopped by the Help Desk Booth to make sure that they caught an in depth analysis from one of us on just how great we are. To illustrate our great responsibilities as Help Desk students we brought a poster board showing literally everything we do at the Help Desk. Everything from statewide Twitter chats, fixing projectors, handling iPads, touring visitors around our prestiges school, explaining how to use Google Classroom to a teacher, creating screencasts that students and teachers can view to solve issues, to even blogging about everything we do. The Burlington High School Help Desk does A LOT and this is why in the future it is going to be viewed as a honors level course. As you can imagine the explanation to our guests at the Learn Launch Conference were rather long and to be honest we completely blew everyone away with the presentation each and everyone of us presented. Explaining our program and seeing people's reactions was great, but collecting business cards and getting to network while viewing other peoples programs was surreal as well...
The Learn Launch Conferences gather a bunch of technology based programs from all over New England to bring everyone together and share ideas on how future classrooms should be like. The Burlington High School Help Desk was proudly there representing Burlington Public Schools and our 1:1 Apple iPad program that we have. Donny, Timmy, Kevin, and I all explained the idea of the Help Desk and all that we do to tons and tons of teachers from other schools. Teachers from Duxbury, Andover, and Ipswich were marveled by all that we do to not only help students here at the high school, but also that we document everything that we do. We showed our awesome classroom to everyone as well because of Donny's 3D Model of the Help Desk that he made as his first semester ILE. There were sixteen booths at the Learn Launch Conference and every single person from every other booth made sure they stopped by the Help Desk Booth to make sure that they caught an in depth analysis from one of us on just how great we are. To illustrate our great responsibilities as Help Desk students we brought a poster board showing literally everything we do at the Help Desk. Everything from statewide Twitter chats, fixing projectors, handling iPads, touring visitors around our prestiges school, explaining how to use Google Classroom to a teacher, creating screencasts that students and teachers can view to solve issues, to even blogging about everything we do. The Burlington High School Help Desk does A LOT and this is why in the future it is going to be viewed as a honors level course. As you can imagine the explanation to our guests at the Learn Launch Conference were rather long and to be honest we completely blew everyone away with the presentation each and everyone of us presented. Explaining our program and seeing people's reactions was great, but collecting business cards and getting to network while viewing other peoples programs was surreal as well...
Andover High School Students shared their magnificent sandbox that they made from scratch. BUT this was no ordinary sandbox, this sandbox's every movement was being watched by the program that was made with it. The students at Andover not only made the sandbox themselves but they made the computer program that went along with this whole project. As you can see the areas of the sandbox that are lower in depression are filled with water. That is because when you dug a whole out of the sand and then simply help your hand over that area, water would appear! The water would then travel down to the lowest possible area. How is this possible you ask? Well the computer was connected to an "Xbox connect" projector that not only projected the image of the topography but also picked up the motions of your hand! This project was by far my favorite at the conference.