In case you missed our webinar for Library Media Specialists, you can access it at your convenience here.

I wanted to highlight some great ideas that came out of the webinar.

Units & Topics that may be of interest to Library Media Specialists:

Ways to make your life easier & extend BP to families/community outside of school make BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr. your homepage

add BrainPOP to your bookmarks or toolbar

set up AUTO LOGIN

use library or school webpage to offer suggestions, resources, assignments…

use our BrainPOP On Your Site feature - take it a step further with assignments

have fun with our banners and badges

introduce at faculty and parent meetings. Make sure specialists know about relevant topics (Music, Health…)

highlight in district, school or parent newsletters

distribute promotional items (Just For Fun - printable bookmarks, posters, etc)

assign a resident BrainPOP expert at each school and/or grade level

utilize our Professional Development offerings to conduct hands-on training for your staff

highlight BrainPOP best practices at faculty and parent meetings

hold contests to encourage sharing and collaboration of BrainPOP best practices - we’ll be holding contests via BrainPOP Educators - teachers can win t-shirts, flip cameras, and more…

Please comment below and add on your own ideas!

Check out the fantastic bulletin board display that Ann Combs sent in! I love how her idea is easy to customize and change throughout the year. Great idea, Ann. Thanks for sharing! You can find fun bits of BrainPOP clipart on our Just For Fun page too add to bulletin boards or any project or assignment.

Here’s what Ann has to say:

I was inspired by one of our third graders. He was working on a “Draw About It” and he drew a wonderful picture of Moby on his computer. I asked him if he could recreate his picture on a large piece of paper for me. He did a great job with it. I had to display it somehow. So . . . I thought that I would just have Moby and the “Write About It” prompt with the student work displayed. The bulletin board lettering and Moby stay up all year. The “Write About It” prompt and the student work can be changed throughout the year. I plan to ask the same student artist to draw Tim for me when school resumes!

Ann Combs
Melvindale-Northern Allen Park School District
Melvindale, Michigan

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.