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With a witty, thoughtful and objective writing style, our friends over at EdSurge have spent the last 2 years developing the “go to” newsletters and website for the latest and greatest developments in the education technology industry. If you aren’t yet subscribing, you can sign up for both the original EdSurge newsletter, that covers the entire edtech ecosystem and EdSurge-Instruct: a more Teacher-focused edition. Signing up doesn’t cost a thing, and the benefits of knowing recent developments in edtech is great! To celebrate their second birthday, the writing staff at EdSurge asked industry players, including BrainPOP’s own COO Din Hieman, a series of thought provoking questions. What would you change in a school day? Who was your most memorable teacher and why? Sign up for the newsletter and read the amusing and intriguing answers to these questions from educators, entrepreneurs and other people of note. Once subscribed, you’ll continue reaping the benefit of EdSurge newsletters every week in your inbox!

Tim and Moby are getting into the holiday spirit! Now through January 15th, save 20 percent when you purchase one of the 12-month Family subscriptions. You’ll have the chance to print or email a gift certificate letting your lucky recipients know. And remember, all our subscriptions now include mobile access.  For more information about the promotion, check out our promo page.  This discount only comes around once a year, so act now!

Note later starting time! Wednesday, August 8th at 6:30 PM ET- BrainPOP’s Guide to Grant Writing Join our very own Dr. Kari Stubbs, Vice President of 21st Century Learning, as she guides you through the ins and outs of grant writing. She’ll spotlight our excellent funding tools and resources, and she’ll offer her expertise on how to word and format the best grant possible. Just in time for back to school, you’ll have everything you need to find the funds for those last minute classroom additions.

With the rise in popularity of games based learning, we are hearing more and more about game based assessment.  Though we believe that students learn a great deal and exercise their “problem solving” muscles from playing well designed games, it’s a hard thing to quantify!  In response to this challenge, many organizations are supporting research and development endeavors and are looking to you, expert educators, for guidance. Specifically, ETS,  designers of the SAT, the GRE and the AP examinations is pleased to announce the official launch of the ETS Assessment Games Design Challenge!  ETS is encouraging game developers and educators to create a math assessment task in the form of a game. One grand prize winner will receive $7,000 and the winner and thee runners-up will receive an all-expense-paid trip to showcase the winning project in a learning and games demo space at ETS in Princeton, N.J. ETS is looking for innovative ideas that produce evidence of students’ knowledge, skills and abilities in mathematics. The assessment tasks should be based on a Learning Progression for a field of mathematics in grades K–12. The ETS Assessment Games Challenge features three categories of entry:   •             Variables and Equality Learning Progression (approximately… Read the Rest»

How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education Click the link and read the study:  How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education, by Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.  The paper examines how blogs, wikis, social media, mobile devices, and video games are impacting education.  West finds that these tools offer “new ways for participation, engagement, and collaboration to take place.” We were thrilled to see our partners at iCivics and Filament Games got a shout out, as well as our friends at Quest to Learn. It’s a thrilling time to be in education, and we’d love to hear what you’re doing with your students along these lines. How are you using blogs, social media, and video games to improve your students’ education? Please share your ideas with us!

Do you and your students use BrainPOP’s resources in the classroom … and beyond?  We’ve partnered with Intel to sponsor a lesson plan contest and we want to hear how you’re taking BrainPOP to go!  Implemented through We Are Teachers, the contest invites educators to submit lesson plans that showcase the use of BrainPOP’s interactive resources on mobile devices.  Submit by May 22nd! Voting is open to the public; weigh in on what you consider the best submissions between May 24th and June 7th.  Winners will be announced on June 11th, and grand prizes include $200 cash and a Flip cam – ideal for filming all your creative ideas in action!  We’ll even feature the winners on BrainPOP Educators.  We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Get the details and great ideas here.  

We’ve Updated Our Research Resources! You know we’re always trying to make life a little easier for teachers. As part of that ongoing effort, we’ve redesigned the BrainPOP Research section, enhancing its offerings and making it even easier to navigate. Explore research and white papers relating to the integration and design of BrainPOP. There’s a science-based effectiveness study as well as relevant articles from outlets like theJournal of Educational Computing. Read about the use of multimedia in K-12 education and review case studies that demonstrate the ways teachers are using our resources. It’s all here! Interested in being part of future research projects or sharing your own findings?  We can’t wait to hear from you!      

BrianPOP is pleased to partner with Samsung and the Turning Foundation to sponsor the Classroom Improvement Technology Grant. The purpose of this grant is to help educators develop 21st century classrooms and improve achievement by providing technology tools from multiple, industry leading companies. By assembling a package of technology-based classroom supports, we hope to improve achievement and the overall success of students and teachers in the classroom.Grant applications will be accepted from teachers in grades K-12 who are currently teaching in an accredited, non-profit school building in the United States. Ten (10) classroom awards estimated at $3,600 each will be distributed. So what are you waiting for?  Apply for the grant by Feb 15th and good luck!

Updated Resource: Funding BrainPOP Did you know that BrainPOP’s resources align with a number of funding objectives that can support your initiatives?  In fact, we’ve just redesigned the Funding BrainPOP page, making it easier than ever for you to pinpoint the most applicable grant opportunities and then write impactful funding applications. We encourage you to visit the revamped page: be sure to check out Funding Search tool and read grant success stories written by other users. We’ve also updated our testimonials and compiled a package of useful grant resources that are sure to prove handy as you write your next application. Whether it’s a PTA proposal or a formal grant, we’ve got you convered with materials like funding alignments, research, and even a grant writer’s reference. See something we missed or want to share YOUR grant success story? We can’t wait to hear from you!  

BrainPOP is proud to be a Sponsoring Partner for the 2011 Global Education Conference, held entirely online from November 14-18. With over 200 sessions presented from all over the world, the conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real–world problems. Through this event, our friends, organizers Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray hope that attendees will challenge themselves and others to become more active citizens of the world. As a sponsoring partner, BrainPOP is especially excited to support esteemed educational philosopher Dr. Howard Gardner’s Keynote presentation on Wednesday November 16th at 2:00PM. Dr Gardner will be interviewed about globalization, new digital media and it’s  impact on education.  It will be a compelling hour. BrainPOP is a leader in delivery of online movies with interactive features in the USA, but you may not have known that BrainPOP content is constantly updated and translated into differentl languages.  It’s available in Spanish, French, Hebrew and even Mandarin!  Global education is part of our identity! The conference is entirely free.  You can learn more about all sessions and excitement at http://globaleducation.ning.com/