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Stephanie Filardo will be joining us at our booth at MITC this weekend. Be sure to stop by and say hello if you’re attending! I was introduced to BrainPOP last fall during my 8-week student teaching by Amber Boyington at Mill Creek Middle School, in Lenexa, Kansas. We used it for 6th grade math and… Read the Rest»

Teaching and Learning English With BrainPOP ESL Wednesday, September 29 4:30 EDT Duration: 1 Hour Tour BrainPOP ESL and get acquainted with its various components. Eight interactive features support each movie and reinforce lessons through practice in all four language skills. In addition, there are lively interactive games, quizzes, and lesson plans. Join us and… Read the Rest»

With the integration of our quizzes and Promethean’s ActiVote/ActivExpression now a month old, we thought we’d solicit some feedback from those of you who’ve put it to use. Students and teachers alike had some great things to say! “Using BrainPOP with ActivExpressions is the best thing since sliced bread … I used them with a… Read the Rest»

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Interested in learning more? Join us for this week’s free webinar: Promethean Integration With Dave Kootman. Three years ago the district I work for took a giant leap into the 21st Century and decided to implement Promethean boards into all of the elementary and middle school classrooms.  With this came the need to find supplemental… Read the Rest»

After lots and lots (and lots!) of revisions, we are ecstatic about BrainPOP Educators’ new look, feel, and functionality, all of which will make their official debut next week! In the meantime, we wanted to highlight a few of these changes and thank everyone who who participated in our user testing.  Your suggestions were invaluable,… Read the Rest»

With President Obama’s launch of the National STEM Video Game Challenge comes a BrainPOP announcement as well! We’re proud to report that BrainPOP will serve as an official founding outreach partner of the Challenge, designed to build and strengthen interest in STEM skills (science, technology, engineering, math). The Challenge is a two-pronged contest administered by Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP is looking for beta-testers for our forthcoming news section. This new feature is designed to offer reading comprehension on current events articles written by BrainPOP staff; give students a chance to share their ideas on topical issues of the day; and provide students and teachers alike with regular updates on new and featured BrainPOP… Read the Rest»

By Lisa Parisi Special guest Lisa Parisi, fifth grade teacher in Long Island, NY, teaches in a collaborative classroom model, and has been teaching for over 25 years. She’s a technology goddess, and loves teaching with technology, as well as sharing her expertise with other educators. She’ll be joining us for TODAY’s free webinar: Project… Read the Rest»

Enhance your lessons with September’s Spotlight: Science Skills.  Topics range from Measuring Matter, States of Matter, Scientific Method, and Types of Rocks to Classification, Mineral Identification, Telescopes, and the Periodic Table of Elements. For K-3, there’s Science Projects, Scientific Method, Tally Charts and Bargraphs, Making Observations, and more. Take advantage of BrainPOP Educators’ Science Video… Read the Rest»