Posts on “ interactive whiteboards ”

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!  

Guest blogger, Felecia Young, is a 9th grade math teacher at Salisbury High School, in Salisbury NC. She is a passionate educator committed to creating an educational environment where all students can be successful through the use of integrating fun digital tools.  One of the best digital lessons I’ve ever done was with the use of BrainPOP and ActivExpressions. BrainPOP and ActivExpressions gave me the opportunity to create lessons that are engaging and interactive. One day while in class, I came across BrainPOP and watched the video. I clicked on Quizzes and I saw shining lights around ActivExpressions and ActiVotes. Were my eyes deceiving me? Can my students use ActivExpressions to take a BrainPOP quiz? Yes, it was true! What a perfect combination! But, will it work with my high school students? I was very skeptical about showing a BrainPOP video to a group of high school students, but to my surprise they were very excited to see Tim and Moby appear on the screen. We went through the video and students took notes on one of the printable activity sheets on BrainPOP’s site. After the video, I wanted to see how much the students retained, so I told them… Read the Rest»

Roosevelt Middle School educator Todd LaVogue recently received the first-place Educators Choice Award for his project “What’s Up Egypt?” during Microsoft’s Partners in Learning U.S. Forum. LaVogue is one of 16 U.S. educators who will attend the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum in Prague, Czech Republic, in November.  My name is Todd LaVogue. For the past three years I taught sixth and eighth grade history at Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida. I enter each unit of study with the idea of taking something the students know and enjoy and combining it with the material mandated by the state that should be taught during the unit. My students, in turn, create television shows, plays, public service announcements and music videos within our unit of study. In one of our more recent projects, my students researched and created an ancient Egypt Today show-style news program with news, weather, sports, cooking, lifestyle, historical and music segments. For example, the weather segment discussed the annual flooding of the Nile and how that was essential to life in ancient Egypt through the depositing of silt on the banks, fertilizing crops. We accomplished this by infusing technology into the curriculum. Using a… Read the Rest»

Dr. Kari Stubbs, VP of 21st Century Learning at BrainPOP, presented the keynote presentation on educational games at the ActivLoudon Plus conference on March 24th. The event brought together 500 educators from the Loudon County School District in Virginia and beyond to learn about the power of technology, including Promethean tools and BrainPOP for teaching and learning. Adina Popa, Technology Resource Teacher and International Ambassador of Loudoun County Public Schools shared these top five takeways from the event: 1.  Gaming in education will become a mainstream initiative within the next 1- 2 years (http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/). 2.  BrainPOP is at the forefront of this movement, implementing gaming throughout their rigorous academic content. 3.  Dr. Kari Stubbs is an amazing speaker! 4.  The conference was a success and I enjoyed sharing and learning with/from my colleagues. 5.  I am looking forward to many more collaborative activities between our county and BrainPOP, as well as many more ActivLoudoun Plus conferences! Congratulations to the organizing team, and Mike Speidel, the head of this operation! How are you taking advantage of the BrainPOP and Promethean integration in your district?  

Guest Blogger Brian M. Adams teaches at Copeland Middle School in Rockaway, NJ. He is caretaker of historyknowledge.com. He is a certified nerd and has no relation to the Canadian rock star.   As a history teacher, review of civics is a must.  In searching for new means of doing so and trying to find a different place to start, I checked with some old friends, Tim and Moby.  At the bottom of the BrainPOP site, I saw an icon for GameUp.  I found a link to Executive Command and I was set.   All my classes met in the computer lab one day.  My goal was for the students to better understand what the jobs and duties of the president.  The students brainstormed previously learned information and after that they logged on to the game.  I gave the students no instruction on how to play, what were the goals or how to score points.   I gave them a sheet which asked four questions: How do you earn points? How do you lose points? What roles do you fill as president?  (Create a list) What conclusions can you make about serving as president?   The assignment led to great… Read the Rest»

Note Later Starting Time: Wednesday, February 29 6:30PM ET Join 4th-grade teacher and BrainPOP advisor Robert Miller for an in depth exploration of using GameUp games in science class.  Learn how playing well-designed educational games is not only great fun, but can help students build mental models of complex systems.

This week, our friends across the pond at BrainPOP UK will be sharing the BrainPOP love at BETT: England’s largest Education Technology extravaganza.  Not only will you find BrainPOP UK on the exhibitor floor, but Tim and Moby will be represented in some conference sessions too! If you happen to be at BETT, come stop by, say hi, get some nifty ideas, and snap that highly coveted photograph with Moby!  Even if you can’t make it to BETT, you can still read about events at BrainPOP UK by reading their POPtalk blog, just don’t tell them we sent you!

iRespond and BrainPOP: The Answer You’re Looking For! Wednesday, December 21st 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Put technology right in your students’ hands and engage them on a new level. Our special guest Chris Haon – 3rd grade teacher at Murdock Elementary in Marietta, Georgia – shows you how to integrate the iRespond student response system with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes. See how easy it is to use the two resources together – and even create your own quiz questions!  

Ahh,  the weeks before holiday break:  sentiments of joy and unrestrained excitement compete with the realities of extreme distraction and stress.  In other words, it’s hard to get a lot done!  At BrainPOP, we recognize this and we want to help you get through to the promised land: winter break. How about a little creative BrainPOP art project? Take a look at BrainPOP Educator’s exclusive BrainPOP holiday clip art collection. Load them into your IWB software and tell a winter tale, print ‘em out and have your students make a collage, use them for holiday sight words flashcards, make holiday cards! Using your imagination, there is no limit to what you and your students can do!  We’ve just activated a new feature to upload photographs, and we’re excited to see what you and your students come up with!  So get to work, snap a photo (or save the file with a .jpg or .gif extension),  and share with the community at BrainPOP Educators.  We can’t wait to see what you do!

Make Your IWB Lessons POP Wednesday, October 5 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Using BrainPOP and an interactive whiteboard? Don’t miss this webinar designed with you in mind. Special guest Mike Jones, Life Science teacher and trainer, demonstrates the role of image capture in creating activities through the magic of “erase” and “reveal” techniques. You’ll explore methods like grouping and an array of resources for clickers and the image gallery. Leave with all kinds of ideas about how to make your lessons POP!