We get so many requests from educators for BrainPOP t-shirts, we decided to hold a contest! Anyone who submits a lesson plan that’s selected to be published between now and January 31, 2009 wins a BrainPOP t-shirt! Submitting lesson plans is quick and easy!  Lesson plans must be original and highlight your integration of BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr. Browse what we’ve got here & submit your own!

Pictured above: Julie, Linda, and Kristen, three fabulous computer lab teachers from Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County School District, Georgia, who joined us at the GaETC conference.

Fall marks the beginning of BrainPOP’s busy conference season; in October, we’ll be criss-crossing the country twice.  We just finished up at ILC, October 14-16 in San Jose, where we were able to connect with a great teacher community in the San Jose area and beyond. We also saw some fabulous presentations that highlighted BrainPOP.  Please be sure to let us know if you are highlighting BrainPOP in a conference that you are presenting at!

Next, it’s on to the National School Board Association’s T+ L Conference in Seattle, where you’ll find us at Booth 211 from October 28-30. Check our Conference schedule for additional events and please contact us if you are interested in presenting at a conference!

Look familiar? If you were at NECC, you probably saw what we refer to as Giant Moby hanging high above our BrainPOP booth. We were pretty excited about our booth set up this year, but would love to hear what you thought of it! Please post comments of your BrainPOP booth experience! We love feedback!

And just for fun, I’m including a behind the scenes shot of the making of Giant Moby!

That’s right! Your eyes are not deceiving you! NECC was a huge success and involved our very own Moby riding a mechanical bull! We had such a great time meeting educators from all over the world and sharing ideas at our events (which I will be posting here and in upcoming newsletters). For now, you’ll find our handouts from NECC in the Conference Materials section of our Professional Development page of BrainPOP Educators!

I was especially excited about the ideas that got bounced back and forth during the BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. workshops. It just made me that much more excited about this idea of building a community of BrainPOP users, so let’s hear it! Jump in and share the ways that you love using BrainPOP with your students! Post your comments here!