Help Desk Curriculum

As I begin my senior year of high school and my second year at Help Desk, I along with every other student feel the excitement of a new school year. As for Help Desk, we are picking up right where we left off as teachers and students get used to the new technology in the classrooms which include new apple TV's as well as laptop and IPad carts that are now floating around the school.

Next, I started to put thought into my Individual Learning Endeavor(ILE). The ILE is Inspired in part by Google’s 20% time project, as well as the pilot program at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the ILE allows Help Desk students to devote (20% (TUESDAY'S) of their time to a project that is “unrelated” to the Help Desk day to day goals and objectives. More information on the Individual Learning Endeavor: http://northgatehelpdesk.weebly.com/what-is-20time.html.
The new curriculum is more structured than last year which includes a more structured ILE as well as a system for tracking what each student has accomplished per day with teachers through the use of QR codes. As for QR codes, each student has been assigned to think of and create a QR code that can be used in the classroom. My Idea was to have a QR code on each assignment or worksheet that links to a Khan Academy video with an example problem. My QR code idea can be viewed