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Using BrainPOP ESL in the Classroom Tuesday, September 13 6:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Get acquainted with BrainPOP ESL and all of its components. Learn how to search and plan for specific lessons, take advantage of teacher resources, and see how engaging the eight interactive features accompanying each movie can be. BrainPOP ESL makes learning English fun; we’ll show you how to harness its power in the classroom.

Special blog post by Cathleen Richardson, who has been a pioneer educational technology specialist for over 15 years.  Working closely with classroom teachers, principals and district administrators, Cathleen strives to achieve best practice technology infusion into teaching and learning with high energy.  She’s deeply committed to helping learners understand the transformational power of technology.  As owner and lead consultant at Cre8tiv Educational Services, she uses her passion for leading-edge technology to discover creative ways to assist schools and organizations in meeting their learning and productivity goals. Ok, what is all of the buzz about new standards adoption?  Well, if you haven’t heard, 44 states across our nation have officially adopted the Common Core State Standards.  If you are in one of these 44 states, get ready because the standards are set to roll out during the 2012-2013 school year.   The National Governors Association and State Education Chiefs launched the standards last year in an effort to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young… Read the Rest»

Greetings from BrainPOP HQ here in NYC! My name is Andrew Gardner and I’m the newest member of the BrainPOP Educators team. As a seasoned school teacher, I’m excited to join Allisyn, Angela, Jessica, Kari and Karina, to continue building our educator community. Prior to my work here at BrainPOP, I was an elementary teacher for six years and a technology integrator for another six. I have a passion for using technology in non-traditional ways to help students build self awareness, think systemically, and problem solve. I’m here now to tackle a big challenge: create a vibrant and engaging online community that helps you become a more effective educator. We’ve got big plans in store over then next few months and are always eager for your feedback. Here’s to a great year together! Andrew

Back to School With BrainPOP Jr.: Brush Up on Basics … and Beyond! Wednesday, September 7 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Kick off your school year the right way! Join this webinar and learn five things you didn’t know about engaging students with BrainPOP Jr. You’ll leave confident you’re getting the most out of our K-3 resource.

Have you checked out our new GameUp offerings? Game-based learning adds a new way to engage students, and we’re so excited about the expanding collection of educational games here at BrainPOP! BrainPOP Educators is looking for high quality lesson plans that include the use of BrainPOP and GameUp to help students learn in meaningful ways. We encourage you to play the full range of games we offer and determine how they fit into your curriculum. Try them out with your students, and then submit a lesson plan sharing your ideas! We’ll be selecting three GameUp lesson plans submitted during the months of September and October to highlight in an upcoming blog post. We’ll also send each of those three submitters a free BrainPOP t-shirt! What are you waiting for? It’s time to GameUp!

As you head back to school, conference organizers are already busy putting plans in place for the ISTE2012. It’s next summer in San Diego! So, as you unpack the new mobile devices that you’ll use in your classroom this year, think about sharing your classroom journey to transform learning. Want to present a mobile topic at ISTE2012?  Call for participation opens September 7th and closes October 5th. Email kstubbs@brainpop if you are interested in submitting. You also have a golden opportunity to help plan mobile learning events for next year’s conference. Simply take this brief 6 question survey to help plan the conference so you can make the most of the experience.  

GameUp: Teaching Civics Through Games Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Are you struggling to find a way to teach students how to engage with their communities and with the government responsibly? Through GameUp, we’re proud to feature games by iCivics that do just that. Through games like Branches of Power and Argument Wars, students learn to navigate through a system to achieve a goal. Join our partners at iCivics and learn how these motivating games emphasize process, not abstract facts and figures, and truly require very little prep from busy teachers!    

Kids across the nation are returning to classrooms this fall. In many schools, they’ll discover increased access to mobile learning devices. This portable technology will undoubtedly change the way that they approach learning, solve problems, collaborate, and communicate. Are you teaching in a school that offers access to mobile devices to your students – whether it’s school provided or a culture that allows students to bring their own? We’d love to hear how you plan to leverage these tools to spark creativity and ignite learning. Don’t forget to checkout the BrainPOP Featured Movie App, too! Our Featured Movie apps are available for Chrome and HP TouchPad users, and for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. That version of the app – also available in Spanish and British English – has been downloaded more than 800,000 times and was recently recommended by the New York Times.

Engaging Students Through GameUp: Battleship Numberline Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour BrainPOP has partnered with some of the best educational game creators to bring you GameUp– a compilation of educational games that are aligned to standards and tie right in to your curriculum. Dixie Ching, of Numbaland, will join us to discuss the impact and the benefits of engaging kids through game play in the classroom. We’ll examine some of the best math games out there and share ideas to help you get up and running with integrating game play into your class.  

The Latest on BrainPOP ESL: Our award-winning English language learning resource continues to expand! We’ve now completed Level 2‘s Unit 6, the last unit of that level. Unit 6 offers a review of tenses: present, past, future, and modal verbs. In its centerpiece movie Mobylocks, a certain robot dons a blonde wig and channels “Goldilocks.” Two of the unit’s lessons are content-based narratives on the butterfly lifecycle and recycling. The Latest on BrainPOP: ♦ Constellations ♦ Fractions ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Student Rights The Latest on BrainPOP Jr.: ♦ Ellis Island ♦ Statue of Liberty ♦ Transportation Curriculum Connections Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check our online Curriculum Calendar for additional tie-ins. ♦ August 4: Happy birthday, Barack Obama! Celebrate with a little Presidential Power. Plus, jazz it up a bit: Louis Armstrong was also born on this date. ♦ August 5: On astronaut Neil Armstrong’s birthday, show our Apollo Project movie and find out about the mission that first put a man on the moon. For K-3, there’s BrainPOP Jr.’s Moon movie. ♦ August 6: The bombing of Hiroshima took place today in 1945. Explain what happened with our World War II and Nuclear Energy movies. “Searching” for something else? The Internet made its debut today in 1991. ♦ August 8: Learn more about Richard Nixon on the anniversary of his 1974 resignation…. Read the Rest»