Prep your students for the rest of the 21st century - and the rest of the school year - with Spotlight: Digital Citizenship. Its topics include Blogs, Cyberbullying, Digital Etiquette, Email and IM, Social Networks, Information Piracy, and much more. K-3 topics cover Internet Safety, Bullying, and Email. Download a poster for your classroom featuring Moby and some of his online safety tips.
Back to School With BrainPOP
Tuesday, August 31
4:30 EDT
Duration: 1 Hour
Welcome back! This webinar highlights the countless ways BrainPOP can help make the back-to-school season easier for you. From using BrainPOP to review topics covered in the last school year to reinforcing online research skills, our resources can help engage students and keep them excited all year.
RSVP: http://backtoschoolbp.eventbrite.com
Planning with netTrekker Search and BrainPOP
Wednesday, September 1
4:30 EDT
Duration: 1 Hour
Looking for high quality online educational resources? Find out how easily the leading educational search tool can pinpoint engaging digital resources like BrainPOP - organized by grade, reading level, curriculum topic, media type, state standards, and more. Come see the value of our partnership with netTrekker, and plan out a portfolio of resources that you can take with you to teach your students the ins and outs of Digital Citizenship.
RSVP: http://nettrekker.eventbrite.com
Make it Click: BrainPOP Quizzes With Promethean’s Learner Response Systems
Thursday, September 2
4:30 EDT
With Promethean’s response technology right in the palm of their hands, students are engaged on a whole new level. This webinar will show you how to get BrainPOP’s quiz integration with Promethean ActiVote and ActivExpression learner response systems up and running in just a few easy steps, then customize your classroom voting experience. It’s just one more way we’re helping you bring 21st century resources into your classroom. We will be offering this webinar weekly, throughout all of September.
RSVP: http://makeitclick1.eventbrite.com
I wanted to share an exciting opportunity for all of our BrainPOP Educators to present your brilliant teaching ideas online… to a global audience! Join this conference to share your innovative teaching ideas and also learn from others educators around the world.
The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held online November 15-19. This five-day free conference will have participation from all over the world in multiple languages and in multiple time zones. Do you have 20 minutes to spare? I encourage you to submit a short proposal to speak on your experiences with BrainPOP and other technologies in the classroom.
More detailed information about the conference is available at http://www.GlobalEducationConference.com. There are going to be five conference tracks: Teacher, Student, Curricular, Policy and Leadership, and Global Issues. Included in these will be a series of sessions specifically sponsored by us, and if you choose to submit a presentation, please indicate us as the sponsoring organization. The selection process will finalize in late September, and you’ll hear directly from the conference organizers. The call for presentations is now open at http://www.globaleducationconference.com/call-for-presentations.html.
There is also an international educator advisory board from all over the world to help promote participation and attendance, to train and support presenters in local regions and languages, and to help with program selection and scheduling. If this is something that interests you, you can submit your interest at http://www.globaleducationconference.com/want-to-help.html.
The hashtag for the conference (for those who “tweet” and blog”) is #globaled10. The Twitter account to follow is http://www.twitter.com/globaledcon.
Do you have any advice for presenting online? Share your tips below!
Congratulations to eMINTS on not only receiving an I3 Grant, but also on being named a Highest Rated Applicant.
BrainPOP is partnering with the University of Missouri eMINTS National Center and New Franklin R-I School District on an I3 (Investing in Education) Grant The eMINTS Validation Project will examine the efficacy of eMINTS professional development programs on the achievement of high-need rural Missouri middle school students. The project will reach 10,500 students and 240 teachers over a five-year period. The grant will specifically examine students’ mathematics and English Language Arts performance. BrainPOP will support the grant with its online content BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL, as well as professional development support through BrainPOP Educators.
Congratulations again. BrainPOP looks forward to supporting this investigation of best practices for technology integration into learning through the eMINTS program.
Is your district involved in a grant program that BrainPOP could support? Please share!
We are so excited for the official launch of the newest feature with our partners at Promethean… BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes are now fully integrated with Promethean’s learner response systems, ActiVote & ActivExpressions! After we piloted it in many schools, we are hearing nothing but positive responses! As long as you’ve got an ActivHub, and ActiVotes or ActivExpressions, it’s quick and easy to set it up, and you can choose the length of time students have to respond, decide whether or not you’d like voting to be anonymous, and incorporate the results into your grading system!
Find out more, try it out, and let us know what you think by posting comments below. You can follow this screencast to be up and running in minutes.
Still interested in quiz integration but not a Promethean user? You can still use other student response systems in overwrite mode with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes.
What a great week for webinars! I just finished a webinar with an amazing bunch of teachers. If you missed this week’s webinars, or any of our past webinars, you can watch them at your convenience on our archives. Here are some ideas that came out of yesterday’s webinar, when we were brainstorming things you could do simply by pausing a movie and taking a screenshot:
Thanks so much to those of you who were able to join. If you missed it, check it out here!
Got creative tips for using BrainPOP? Excited to try out some new ideas? Please post below!
Feeling a little “out of BrainPOP shape” as the new school year fast-approaches? We’re here to help! Get back into the swing of things with 2 free webinars this week!
Tuesday, August 17 - Teaching and Learning English With BrainPOP ESL (now archived!)
Wednesday, August 18 - Planning Over the Summer With BrainPOP
Both are free, and start at 4:30 EDT. Get the details & RSVP here!
Let us know what topics you’d like to hear about, and when you’d like to hear about them, by posting comments below. We’re happy to provide statements of participation.
Back to school season is upon us, which means stocking up on school resources and supplies. We’ve got you covered on the resource front: Spotlight: Back to School. BrainPOP topics include Book Reports, Test Preparation, Reading Skills, Bullying, Stress, Getting Help and more. K-3 topics range from Kindergarten, School, and Friends to Listening and Speaking, Capital and Lowercase, and Bullying. Be sure to download BrainPOP Educators’ graphic organizers as well.
As for supplies, I just came across this offer from Staples:
Staple stores in Manhattan will hold their appreciation days from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Aug. 18. Stores elsewhere across the state will hold events from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 21. Nothing like feeling appreciated for being a teacher!
Any other great resources or special deals for teachers you know of? Let’s share them here!
Intro to BrainPOP Jr.
Tuesday, August 10
4:30 EDT
Duration 1 Hour
Just in time for back to school… Get to know the ins and outs of our K-3 resource in this hour-long webinar. Learn how to use BrainPOP Jr. for more effective planning, and hear best practices for integrating our content into your classroom. We’ll also talk about the tools and features you’ll find on BrainPOP Educators.
Archive: http://tinyurl.com/2bvnjdn
Just came across this grant on DonorsChoose, via twitter. I had success with DonorsChoose when I was teaching, and I often recommend it as a super teacher-friendly funding resource. Check out how easy it is to write a grant, and how easy it is to get the word out using social networking tools! We’ve got funding tips from previous blog posts you can check out here.
We’re rooting for you, Ms. K! Keep us posted!
Have you had success with funding BrainPOP with a grant? Share tips and experiences below! We’re also working on building up our funding resources. What would you like to see?
