The ECOO Conference (Ontario, November 12-13) marks our first participation in a Canadian conference. Stop by our booth and say hi!

Mark your calendars to attend two special sessions featuring BrainPOP.  Lucas Kent, Canadian teacher and author of 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology will share his experiences incorporating technology in his school and highlight the integration of BrainPOP and Promethean resources in his classroom in his Friday session at 9:00 am, room 1438, 6 Steps to Success with BrainPOP & ActivExpressions. Dr. Kari Stubbs, Director of 21st Century Learning at BrainPOP will present Digital Citizenship: Teach Your Students How to Use Technology Responsibly, Friday at 1:00 in room 1321. Join this session to discuss digital citizenship and leave with a toolkit of resources on blogs, internet safety, email and IM, and more that can be easily integrated into your curriculum.

Are you a Canadian educator who uses BrainPOP? We’d love to hear from you!

We’re often asked about our fun booth set up at conferences. I just returned from Denver, CO’s T+L Conference, and we received lots of questions about our stools. I think these would be great for the classroom, since they’re stackable, so here’s the scoop.  You can get inexpensive wooden benches at Ikea, and… wait for it… WASHABLE toilet seat covers at Target! A teachers dream!

Want to see these in person? Join us at an upcoming conference!

Do you tweet? BrainPOP does! We use twitter as another way to support our educators. BrainPOP tweets about featured movies, monthly spotlights, upcoming conferences, and current BrainPOP events. It is just one more way that we support a professional learning community among our users.

To meet some of our BrainPOP twitter followers, BrainPOP hosted its first ever TweetUp last week. The event was held in conjunction with the NSBA T+L conference in Denver. What’s a TweetUp? It is a chance for BrainPOP followers to develop a sense of community, by meeting one another, the BrainPOP team, and connecting. Our first TweetUp was extra special because we were able to honor two of our BrainPOP Advisors, Teryl Magee and Robert Miller for receiving the 2009 NSBA “20 to Watch” award.

Attendees learned about the event by following @brainpop on twitter. Our first TweetUp was a success. Attendees mingled with BrainPOP team members and each other. Even Moby was on hand for pictures! TweetUp attendees were treated to a special t-shirt, and encouraged to tweet throughout the event.

To be among the first to hear about local BrainPOP TweetUps and events, be sure to follow BrainPOP on twitter@brainpop .

Are you attending the NSBA T+L conference in Denver? If so, come check us out at Booth 313! Pose with Moby, connect with BrainPOP staff, participate in the BrainPOP challenge, catch a demo, and more! We’re even featuring a few of our BrainPOP Educators, including two of the newest crop of 20 to Watch. They’ll be on hand to share technology integration strategies and answer questions. Pick up a copy of our new science based research, too. See you in Denver! Checkout our full BrainPOP T+L conference schedule.

Here’s a list of our full conference schedule this school year. We hope to see you on the road!

What conferences are you attending this school year?

Now that the school year is underway, we’re in full swing of conference season, and we’re really excited about the T + L conference in Denver this October 28 - 29.

Stay tuned on BrainPOP Educators for more details about special BrainPOP events happening (we’re having lots of fun planning!). For now, check out this great write up about note-taking with BrainPOP.

BrainPOP Nuggets of Knowledge

Great name!

Coming to T + L in Denver? Let us know, and be sure to stop by our booth and introduce yourself as a BrainPOP Educator!

Off we go! A whole bunch of the BrainPOP Team is heading to Washington, DC tomorrow for NECC. We’ve been preparing for weeks! We’re extra excited since we’ll be kicking off our year-long 10th birthday celebration at the show! Visit us at Booth 3704 for educator-led demos of best classroom practices; new BrainPOP goodies for your school; and of course, the company of Moby.  If you’re a BrainPOP Educators blog reader, please be sure to introduce yourself!

Keep this schedule on hand as you plan your conference itinerary, visit us online for the latest NECC news, and follow us on Ning, Facebook, and Twitter.

If NECC isn’t in your travel plans, be sure to take a look at our conference schedule and find out when we’ll be coming to your neighborhood.

BrainPOP is proud to announce the debut of an exciting new product - BrainPOP ESL - currently in development. This new member of the BrainPOP family will combine the fun of BrainPOP with an innovative and comprehensive English teaching tool.

The BrainPOP ESL team is seeking input as we move forward. To this end, we’re having a focus group at NECC, on Tuesday, June 30^th.  There are two sessions, at 10 and 11 am, which can accommodate a limited number of participants.

If you’re interested in participating, please come to the BrainPOP booth, #3704, to sign up.  Space is very limited; please come early to register.

In case you can’t make it to NECC in Washington, DC, perhaps you’ll find yourself in NYC, looking for something to do next weekend. I just heard about VONY Speak (Voices of New York) from a connection we made through our Facebook page. This is the first annual Youth Media Arts Conference and Benefit, being held at the 92nd Street Y.  The description of the event sounds fantastic!

Social networking has great perks like learning about local events like this! Wish I could be there. I’d love to hear about it if you attend! Please post comments. Thanks for letting us know, Joėl!

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From Feburary 2-6, you’ll find us in Austin at TCEA, Booth 528. Stop by to check out product demos, take home some great BrainPOP goodies, talk to our staff, and learn about our new features like BrainPOP Educators and Activity Pages. But wait, there’s more!

In-Booth Presentations: Win a School Combo Subscription!

Join us throughout the conference for dynamic in-booth presentations (schedule below) that showcase BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., and BrainPOP Educators - we’ll raffle off one School Combo subscription at the end of each 20-minute session.

Wednesday, February 4*

11:30 a.m., 3:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m.

* Please note that the session originally scheduled for 2 p.m.
is now at 11:30 a.m.

Thursday, February 5

10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4:15 p.m.

Friday, February 6

10 a.m.

Wear a Shirt, Win a Subscription!

Plus, we’ll be giving away free BrainPOP Educators t-shirt at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 4th (while supplies last); pick yours up then wear it around the Convention Center. If we spot you, you’ll win a subscription for the school of your choice.