Posts on “ BrainPOP ”

Wednesday, December 14th 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour From BrainPOP Educators to ed tech conferences everywhere, you’ve heard the buzz about games in the classroom. Now, take a look at the roots of those games. What’s the development process like? What key ingredients ensure their success? Would you and your students make good game beta-testers? Allisyn Levy and the team from BrainPOP partner Filament Games host.  

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!  

Wednesday, December 7th • 4:30 pm EDT • Duration: 1 hour Unsure of how to get started with your subscription?  We’re here to help! This webinar guides you through the full range of BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. features, showing you all kinds of ways to integrate them into your curriculum.  You’ll quickly see how our resources can help bring learning to life for your students!  

Here at BrainPOP we strive to keep our content current, relevant and consistently engaging.   We work with content experts and advisors to assure the videos and interactive features meet your expectations.  This week we introduce our newest advisor: Esther Wojcicki.  Esther’s impressive list of accomplishments include: founder of Palo Alto High’s Journalism program, chair at Learning Matters and vice chair at Creative Commons not to mention frequent contributer at the Huffington Post and consultant for the Carnegie Foundation.  With these experiences, she brings insight to the development of BrainPOP content in language arts, journalism and social studies. Esther enjoys BrainPOP because the “videos are easy to use, divided into logical categories, short but not too short and cover the material in an interesting way.” Also, working closely with students in journalism courses, she explains, “kids are expected to do some research themselves, find the information themselves and collaborate with their peers.  BrainPOP fits well into this new paradigm since kids can easily watch a variety of videos on their own and then join their group to share new information. Alternatively, they can watch together and then create some kind of project based on the new information they learned.”  Frequent readers… Read the Rest»

Wednesday, November 2nd 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour “Pop” in with special guest Kristen Olsen, Instructional Technology facilitator at Downers Grove Grade School District 58, as she shares her tips for engaging students with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. She’ll cover searching for and planning specific lessons as well as different ways to incorporate the resources that support each of our movies. You’ll leave with a collection of best practices you can put to use immediately!

Guest Blogger Michael Lambert currently teaches middle school in Shanghai and previously taught at Hong Kong International School. He is an ADE, serves on the 2011 K12 Horizon Report Advisory Board and teaches workshops on media literacy throughout Asia. Michael has written several articles related to visual literacy. Along with his passion for teaching, he brings a background in cognitive science and project-based learning. Even after 25 years of teaching in Asia, Michael still maintains a childlike wonder and curiosity. Today Michael joins us to share about his use of BrainPOP at the international setting. Ni hao. As an international school in Shanghai, our student body of 1200 (K-12) from 40 countries, uses BrainPOP almost daily around the school.   The topic pages allow students to replay content, hear a condensed message (as opposed to a teacher’s long explanation) and see a short video as opposed to overly verbose and lengthy lecture! The BrainPOP topics as well as the content are “Spot-on,” says Liam, a grade 3 student from Australia.  “The video clips help me focus.” Students love using BrainPOP for research purposes. For example, in our China unit we are currently exploring pressures and developments in China’s new economy.  The answers… Read the Rest»

Diversity and Culture with NetTrekker and BrainPOP Wednesday, October 26 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour We’ll show you how netTrekker Search and BrainPOP can help you pinpoint the most engaging lesson ideas and resources for an array of multicultural-themed projects. You’ll be amazed at the diversity of content and organizational strategies you can use when you combine BrainPOP and netTrekker!

EdWeb: Games Created Social Learning Opportunities for Students Tuesday, October 25 4:00 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Do you think students learn through observing the behaviors and activities of others? Do you believe that peer support can lead to increased learning outcomes? In our next webinar, Snehal Patel, CEO of Sokikom, will explore how the growth and availability of the Internet over the past decade has allowed learning to become a lot more social. Patel will also share how two of today’s educational games—Xenos and Sokikom— leverage this social layer in ways that enhance and improve learning with students working collaboratively to achieve objectives. Join Snehal Patel for an interactive, one-hour webinar on Tuesday, October 25 for a look at how social learning games allow students to learn from one another.

BrainPOP Educators: If We Build It, They Will Come! Thursday, October 20 6:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Andrew Gardner and Jessica Storer of BrainPOP Educators give you an extensive overview of the BrainPOP Educators community. Hear about the breadth of resources we offer, from lesson plans to graphic organizers to our newest feature, interactive community groups and forums. See the mechanisms we have in place to help you share, support, and interact with more than 145,000 fellow BrainPOP Educators. We can’t wait to see you participating in our robust community!

Navigating the Writing Process with Kerpoof and BrainPOP Wednesday, October 19 6:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Teaching writing skills can be a challenge for many teachers. But in this webinar, Devren Hobbs, Education Manager at Kerpoof, and Jessica Storer, Manager of Education Outreach at BrainPOP, show you that it doesn’t have to be that way. They’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use Kerpoof and BrainPOP to bring digital storytelling into your curriculum. Devren and Jessica will cover some of the creative and engaging ways you can help students brainstorm, compose and publish stories online, and reinforce their writing skills overall. Take home a whole new batch of strategies for writing instruction.