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We are so excited for the official launch of the newest feature with our partners at Promethean… BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes are now fully integrated with Promethean’s learner response systems, ActiVote & ActivExpressions! After we piloted it in many schools, we are hearing nothing but positive responses! As long as you’ve got an ActivHub, and ActiVotes or ActivExpressions, it’s quick and easy to set it up, and you can choose the length of time students have to respond, decide whether or not you’d like voting to be anonymous, and incorporate the results into your grading system! Find out more and try it out! You can follow this screencast to be up and running in minutes. We’d love to hear what you think of this new feature. Please email kylel@brainpop.com. Still interested in quiz integration but not a Promethean user? You can still use other student response systems in overwrite mode with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes.

I was fortunate to connect with Lisa Remy through her response to a call for presenters we put out in our December newsletter. Lisa shares her expertise in using online resources in conjunction with student response systems (clickers) and interactive whiteboards. We get lots of questions about integrating BrainPOP with these technology tools, so read on to learn from Lisa’s experience, and please add to the conversation by posting comments. I am a part-time library media specialist at a small pk-8 school in rural Oklahoma.  I am blessed with excellent colleagues and wonderful students and a quite supportive administrator (who is both superintendent and principal!)  I have 25 years of teaching and library media experience and am amazed at the extent of the changes in teaching methods in both the classroom and the library.  Resources such as BrainPOP Jr. as well as equipment such as classroom response systems and interactive whiteboards have truly energized the teaching and learning environment. I work with students from all grades- some on a weekly basis.  The lesson I plan to describe today is typical of how I use BrainPOP Jr. along with my H-ITT classroom response system (clickers).  This particular lesson is with the… Read the Rest»

I came across two articles today that I thought I’d share. I thought this was a really uplifting story about how a middle school within the low-ranking Tennessee school system is boosting students’ love of learning with technology. Read all about it! More and more accredited e-schools are popping up, and I’m always interested to read about how it works. Here’s how a family came to the decision of switching from a neighborhood public school to a public, state-funded e-school.  Take a look! Both articles capture current trends in education. What do you think? Can you relate to either of these experiences?