Posts on “ BrainPOP ESL ”

Join the POParrazi We are excited to be in Austin, Texas, this week for the 2013 TCEA Conference.  If you’re at the conference, stop by Booth # 1717 to take your picture with Moby and participate in our #mobyandme POParrazi photo collection!  While you’re there, find out about the latest developments at BrainPOP, including the mixer, new Educators pages ,and a special first glimpse of new teacher and student accounts!   BrainPOP is also featured in the conference program – our own Arturo Guajardo will present BrainPOP Basics and Beyond Thursday, FEB. 7th from 12:30 – 1:20pm in the Hilton ROOM 406. See you there!  

Joshua Z. White is an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Motlow College in Lynchburg, TN and Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. Right now he is currently pursuing a Masters of Educational Leadership with Arkansas State University, and even considering attending law school. Since August 2011 he has been teaching English, Mathematics, and Science to grade four and five students in the Middle East. Greetings from the Middle East! My name is Josh and I am a former educator from Georgia. Three years ago the state cut our budgets to the bare bones, and as the low man on the totem pole I was left without a job! It’s been an adventure that saw me working in a department store and selling cars, to walking the sands of the Arabian Desert! It has been an adventure that by no means I regret, even with all the challenges of moving to a foreign country – which with all due respect to my new home, might as well be a foreign planet! In my classroom I have 50 students between 2 classes. I teach fourth and fifth grade boys from Oman, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,… Read the Rest»

Wednesday, December 12th at 4:00 PM ET- What’s New on BrainPOP ESL Our award-winning English language learning resource continues to grow and thrive! Bev Fine, BrainPOP ESL’s Editorial and Outreach Director, introduces its newest units and tools. She’ll share her favorite tips and tricks for navigating this powerful resource, and you’ll see why BrainPOP ESL has everything you need to address ESL/ELL student needs.

Have you checked out BrainPOP ESL lately? If so, you may have noticed our new content: Level 3, Unit 4! We are excited to announce the launch of this new unit, which brings BrainPOP ESL up to 80 specific lessons! In addition to exploring higher level grammatical concepts, the movies are also increasingly content-driven – a development that can help all students. Take, for example, “A High Probability” (Level 3, Unit 4, Lesson 3). This BrainPOP ESL topic page focuses on infinitive verbs, but also explains the mathematical concept of probability. Learners essentially get two lessons in one. Beyond the new content, BrainPOP ESL has new features too. “Words to Know,” the all-important word introduction feature accompanying each lesson, now includes “Word Connections.” “Word Connections” explains various verb forms in the classic visual, clear style you’ve come to expect from BrainPOP. Powerful new reading and writing extension activities highlight specific forms of written expression. Within “A High Probability,” the “Read It” activity invites students to explore a persuasive essay, with thoughtful multiple choice comprehension questions that engage readers. The “Write It” section delves further into the art of persuasion by prompting students to write an advertisement within the structure of… Read the Rest»

Ben and Moby are excited to announce new content on BrainPOP ESL: level 3, unit 3! Did you know that the higher level units on BrainPOP ESL, are more content driven, so they not only demystify grammar and language structures, but explain content on topics as diverse as Mount Everest,  April Fools Day, and the Engineering of Trains.  As always, the movies are entertaining, and the support content is top notch.  Enjoy!  

The NABE conference is the largest gathering of ELL educators in the country and there’s no better place to spread the word about our award-winning BrainPOP ESL.  The 42nd annual conference will be held in Orlando, FL from February 7-9, 2013 and will host more than 2,000 attendees and include internationally renowned keynote and featured speakers.  With more than 200 featured and concurrent sessions it’s the perfect conference to expand your own professional development AND share your teaching expertise with others.  If you’re a BrainPOP ESL superstar who lives in the Orlando area and has some tips and tricks to share, submit a proposal to present at the NABE conference.  Need some help?  No problem!  Just send us an email at BrainPOP Educators and we’ll work together to create the best proposal possible.  All proposals must be submitted but August 15th, 2012 so don’t wait too long to get started!  

BrainPOP has some exciting news!  We are thrilled to announce that we’ve released the “Hear It, Say It” recording tool on BrainPOP ESL.  Students will now have the opportunity to hear a phrase or word spoken by Ben, repeat it while recording their own voice, and then listen to themselves speaking the English language.  This amazing tool will enhance the support activities that accompany the BrainPOP ESL lessons by making the experience truly interactive.  Our team has been hard at work to provide you with this newest feature so, let’s hear it for BrainPOP ESL!  

We’re thrilled to report that nearly 30,000 students at 66 schools in Mexico City now have access to our resources thanks to a new agreement between BrainPOP and Mexico City’s Department of Public Education. The agreement is part of Mexico City’s Educaćion en Red, a large-scale initiative with the goal of widespread online educational technology integration. This newest batch of BrainPOP users will have 24/7 access to BrainPOP Español – our Spanish language resource – and BrainPOP ESL – our award-winning English language learning and teaching tool – from any computer with an internet connection. Teachers will be able to take advantage of the online professional community BrainPOP Maestros. Like its U.S. counterpart BrainPOP Educators, BrainPOP Maestros features lesson plans, classroom tools, best practices, and the insight of more than 4,000 teachers across the Spanish-speaking world. You may already know how widely BrainPOP Español is used in bilingual settings here in the U.S. But it’s also used by more than 4.5 million children in 19 Spanish-speaking countries – in rural communities, urban centers, public and private schools, libraries, and homes. Within Mexico, BrainPOP has partnered with institutions including the National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico (CONACULTA), the Department… Read the Rest»

At the end of January and beginning of February, I had the privilege to take an educational tour through seven cities in India. While visiting schools, universities, educational reform organization and companies, I shared my love for BrainPOP with everyone! One particularly interesting government school in Mumbai was run in conjunction with a community based project called Muktangan. This school not only educates k-8 students, but also houses a teacher training institute that employs many of the progressive approaches we see in the best schools in the US. I noticed a number of children on computers, so I shared a BrainPOP trial with the school and asked for their feedback. Last week, Uma Kogekar, the instructional technologist at one of the seven Muktangan schools, sent me a message describing teachers’ reaction after a few weeks of using BrainPOP. Ritu, a faculty member in the Education Department who works with pre-service teachers, says, “The trainees will use it to practice grammar!” This was echoed by Avni, a faculty member from the Language Dept, “BrainPOPESL can be used for English proficiency classes with our teachers!” Jennifer, also from the Language Department wrote, “We showed the Shakespeare movie to the kids as we are doing… Read the Rest»

Wednesday, February 22 4:30PM: Join Bev Fine, BrainPOP ESL’s Editorial and Outreach Director, for a tour of our award-winning English language learning/teaching tool. She’ll show you the ins and outs of all eight interactive features accompanying each movie, and you’ll see why BrainPOP ESL has everything you need to successfully support ESL/ELL student needs.