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Having Trouble With Your Website Menu in First Class?

Kim Estes — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:52:46 +0000

Here’s a helpful document for teachers who’s website menu is not working properly! Follow these steps and it will look just like our help videos HERE.

Here’s the document - New Site Menu Fix
and you can also find it on our First Class Help Page - HERE.

NASA and BISD: The Countdown to Contact Begins

Kim Estes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:28:49 +0000

We are at 2 days and counting until the live, in-flight downlink with astronaut Greg Chamitoff aboard the International Space Station. Come join us in the Burleson High School auditorium for a free, public event as 20 of our students interview astronaut Greg Chamitoff as he orbits the Earth aboard the International Space Station. The downlink will occur from 10:50am until 11:15 am.

To celebrate this historical event, for which Burleson ISD was chosen as one of only 5 downlink sites GLOBALLY, BISD will be hosting a day of science and technology fun for the whole community. From 9:30am until 2:00pm, students, families, community members, and space explorers of all ages can enjoy robotics competitions, meterorite displays from the Monnig Meterorite Museum at TCU, and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s mobile science labs and the portable planetarium all free of charge! Visitors can add their name onto a microchip that will orbit the moon on a special satellite, view and learn about high powered telescopes, watch videos about NASA and the MISSION BISD:ALL SYSTEMS GO summer camp, and wander through educational displays about the International Space Station, Expedition 17, and our astronaut, Greg Chamitoff.

Summer classes, church groups, clubs and organizations, daycares and summer camps are all welcome to attend. If you would like to volunteer for the event, or just need more information, please contact Sandra Hines at (817) 245-1000 or via email at IT@burlesonisd.net.

Mission BISD: All Systems Go Summer Science and Technology Camp A Success

Kim Estes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:27:51 +0000

The Mission BISD: All Systems Go summer science and technology camp, a week long look at science and technology with a NASA theme, ended in the stars on Friday, June 13, 2008 as students visited the portable planetarium provided by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Throughout the week students also got to experience geocaching, robotics, data probes and hand-held microscopes, student response systems, digital photostories, lab experiments, and much more. Apangea, a sponsor of the camp gifted each student with a summer license to use their math tutorial program, and the 457^th Fighter Squadron from Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth sent pilot Lt. Chris Bachelor to meet the students and talk about the science and technology of flight. Students spent the week exploring, learning, and having fun. Several students from camp have been selected, along with non-camp students, to ask questions of NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff during the live, in-flight downlink with the International Space Station on June 26, 2008 at 10:55am. Response from students, staff, and parents regarding the camp has been very positive and we hope to repeat the event again next year. We would like to formally thank all of our sponsors for their support and donations. And a special thank you goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Lori Rich, Candace Rich, and the team of videographers, photographers, and audio crew from Hughes Middle School for covering the camp events.

2008 Technology Learning Fair

shines — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:53 +0000

The 2008 annual Technology Learning Fair, part of the 2008 Mission BISD: All Systems Go, is gearing up for a fantastic week of technology staff development. Our TLF Program outlines each course being offered. To register for courses, log in to Eduphoria .

Out of district teachers may attend.

Cost for out of district attendees is:

$15.00 - 90 minute course
$30.00 - 3 hour course
$50.00 - 6 hour course

Call the Staff Development office at 817-245-1000 to register.

Expedition 17 Live In-Flight Downlink

shines — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:32:03 +0000

On April 22nd we received an exciting email from NASA that started with these words, “Congratulations! The Teaching From Space Office at the Johnson Space Center would like to officially notify you that your proposal was selected for a live-in-flight education downlink for Expedition 17 on the International Space Station.”

To learn more …

Making It Happen Mini-Grants: Good Way To Get Tech

Kim Estes — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:36:36 +0000

The annual Making It Happen Mini-Grant application forms are now available! Be sure to get yours submitted! Now is a great time to ask for those digital cameras, projectors, student response systems! And this year…the form is digital, so you can email it in! The forms can be found a the top of the All Staff Conference in your email. Need help? Send us an email at it@burlesonisd.net. Click HERE to learn more about the Foundation.

Teachers - Visit the K-12 Online Conference

Kim Estes — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:28:22 +0000

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (http://www.k12onlineconference.org/) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.

This is a wonderful opportunity for teachers to earn professional development hours while attending events asynchonously as their schedules allow! Visit the K-12 Online Conference at http://www.k12onlineconference.org/ .

To get BISD staff development credit, go to http://ed.burlesonisd.net/forms/default.aspx

Log into Eduphoria/SchoolObjects
Click Submit New Form in bottom left
Select: Online Learning Staff Development Credit & Feedback
Complete and submit the form.