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by allisyn
November 11, 2009
BrainPOP Educators has won a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence in the New Product category. After being online for a little over a year, BrainPOP Educators has grown from 60 to 600 to over 60,000 registered Educators, who come here to access and share free tips, tools, and resources. We’re so lucky to have… Read the Rest»
by allisyn
November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:00 pm EDT Duration: 1 hour Learn tips for how to make the most out of BrainPOP’s online animated movies and interactive features. Best-practices for how to engage students and easily incorporate BrainPOP into you curriculum will be shared, as well as suggestions for effective planning. We’ll also talk about the… Read the Rest»
by kari
November 8, 2009
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… Read the Rest»
by allisyn
November 5, 2009
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… Read the Rest»
by kari
November 4, 2009
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… Read the Rest»
by allisyn
November 3, 2009
This Wednesday, we’ve invited special guest Robert Miller, BrainPOP Advisor and winner of NSBA’s 20 to Watch Award for Emerging Technology Leaders, to join us for our first webinar in November. Robert will highlight some of the the amazing work he’s doing with his 4th and 5th graders in Port Orange, FL, using BrainPOP. Hope… Read the Rest»
by allisyn
November 2, 2009
This month, BrainPOP’s Spotlight: American Indians covers topics from Pochahontas, Tecumseh, and Thanksgiving to the Iroquois Confederacy, French and Indian War, and Pueblo (BrainPOP Jr.). BrainPOP Educators features a Trail of Tears lesson plan as well. Cell phones. Robots. Submarines. Body scans. They’re all cool, they’re all technology-driven, and they’re all part of our Spotlight:… Read the Rest»
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Here at BrainPOP we strive to keep our content current, relevant and consistently engaging. We work with content experts and advisors to assure the videos and interactive features meet your expectations. This week we introduce our newest advisor: Esther Wojcicki. Esther’s impressive list of accomplishments include: founder of Palo Alto High’s Journalism program, chair at… Read the Rest»
With all the buzz at BrainPOP about the STEM video game challenge and this week’s Global Education Conference, today we welcome Guest Blogger Laura Brown. Laura is an expatriate science teacher working in Shanghai at Concordia International School. Recently selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator and member of the Learning 2.0 Asia Technology Conference executive… Read the Rest»
At BrainPOP we update the site with new movies, quizzes, games and teaching materials all the time. To ensure that everything we release is of the highest quality, we call on our esteemed education advisors for their guidance and wisdom. Today we welcome the newest member of our BrainPOP advisory board, former Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at… Read the Rest»