Posts on “ professional development ”

Wednesday, January 30th at 3:30 PM ET- Get It: iOS Accessibility We welcome Leslie Schecht, Director of Technology for Special Education District 75 in New York City, for a look at the iOS platform’s accessibility features. See how Leslie uses technology to provide educational, vocational, and behavior support for students who are on the autism spectrum; have significant cognitive delays; are severely emotionally challenged or sensory impaired; or are disabled in other ways. You can follow Leslie, an Apple Distinguished Educator, on Twitter: @techdiva. Her district’s innovative use of technology was recently profiled in Fast Company magazine!

Wednesday, January 23rd at 3:30 PM ET- Google This: BrainPOP and Google Apps for Education Explore BrainPOP’s integration with Google Application for Education and the Google Chrome web application. Andrew Gardner, BrainPOP Educators Senior Manager, will discuss the benefits of integrating Google and BrainPOP, including single sign-on, the ability to collect quiz score data directly into a spreadsheet, and more.

Wednesday, January 16th at 3:30 PM ET- Customized Assessment With the Mixer If you missed our past Mixer-themed webinars, we’ve got you covered in this hour-long look at our newest tool. Designed to let you create and remix your own BrainPOP quizzes, the Mixer makes it possible to tailor assessment for all your students’ needs. We’ll share ideas and best practices so you can start mixing it up with this valuable teaching resource.

This Thursday, January 10 at 4pm ET,  join our friends at EdWeb for a compelling webinar. Presenters: Victoria Van Voorhis, Founder & CEO, Second Avenue Software, and  Jayne C. Lammers, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. How do girls’ preferences in computer games vary from those of boys? Girls value the opportunity to collaborate with others in solving problems in non-violent, non-competitive contexts. These factors should be considered when designing or evaluating games for the classroom. Join Victoria Van Voorhis and Jayne C. Lammers for our community’s new webinar to learn how to incorporate games into your curriculum to engage all of your students. Join these two experts who have studied girls and gaming from diverse perspectives for the insight you need to make smart choices about games for learning. REGISTER HERE for the webinar

Wednesday, January 9th at 3:00 PM ET- netTrekker Search/Knovation & BrainPOP: Multiple Resources for Multiple Intelligences Join us as we explore multiple intelligences and highlight the ways you can use netTrekker Search and BrainPOP to develop corresponding learning paths. netTrekker’s learning architects and our Carrie Mignano will provide you with a portfolio full of strategies for addressing the different intelligences in your classroom, from spatial to auditory and every intelligence in between.

Boston Area Teachers! Friday, 11 January 2013, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. EST Join local learning game designers, educational researchers, and fellow teachers for an intimate one-day professional development workshop designed to help make game design a reality in your classroom. Organized by BrainPOP, Learning Games Network, and the MIT Education Arcade, the day will focus on new ways we can all make learning playful for our students. Learning game designers, researchers, and educators will lead sessions on how you can more effectively integrate BrainPOP’s GameUp resources into your classroom teaching and introduce the Learning Games Network’s Game Design Tool Kit as a way to engage students in conceptual game design. In the afternoon, you’ll be the first to play a handful of new games, produced earlier in the the week by teams of designers and programmers from MIT, BrainPOP, Learning Games Network, and Emerson College’s Engagement Lab; these new games are being produced to help us better assess and understand student learning through games! We’re looking for Boston-area teachers to join us for this exciting and productive professional development program. Each participant will leave with a sense that… Game-based learning is doable! It’s educational! Teachers can shape the direction of games being… Read the Rest»

Wednesday, December 19th at 3:30 PM ET- Mix It Up! Tune in for this look at BrainPOP’s newest tool, the Mixer. This exciting resource helps you create and remix your own BrainPOP quizzes to better meet all your students’ needs. We’ll also discuss the newest features on BrainPOP Educators, where we’ve curated all topic-related teaching resources to make your lesson prep much easier.

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.

Wednesday, December 5th at 6:00 PM ET- BrainPOP Basic Training Whether you’re new to BrainPOP or a veteran user in need of a refresher, this overview is perfect for you. We’ll explore the ins and outs of our products, including BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP, GameUp,BrainPOP Educators, and highlight all the new features we’ve added recently.

BrainPOP is proud to be a sponsor at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum being held this week, November 28 – December 1 in Prague, Czech Republic.  Dr. Kari Stubbs, Vice President of Learning and Innovation at BrainPOP, will be on hand to speak to participants about Leveraging Online Games for Classroom Engagement. The Global Forum – with the theme, “Your ideas matter” – will bring together more than 500 of the most innovative teachers, school leaders, education leaders, and government officials from 75 countries. Microsoft Partners in Learning is a $500 million global initiative aimed at supporting schools and educators’ use of technology to help every student receive an excellent education and gain the skills they need on work and life. With governments, academic institutions and NGOs, Partners in Learning has invested in a comprehensive research program, the creation of a vibrant community of education stakeholders, and specific educator and schools programs to improve teaching and learning and optimize the use of technology within pedagogy. Thus far the program has trained more that 10 million educators and reached more than 207 million students in 139 countries. Follow the winners and action at #PilGF on Twitter and on Facebook… Read the Rest»