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Wednesday, November 14th at 4:00 PM ET- Differentiating With BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. This week, we welcome staff from New York City’s Churchill School, dedicated to helping students with learning disabilities. Technology integrator Wendy Semsel and her colleagues will discuss best practices for using BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. in their unique setting. This is a great webinar for teachers working with special needs and mainstreamed students alike.

BrainPOP ESL: Basics and Beyond Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Get acquainted with the award-winning BrainPOP ESL, the newest addition to our suite of resources. Bev Fine takes you through the eight interactive features that support each movie and reinforce the lessons through practice in all four language skills. She’ll also take a look at teacher support material like lesson plans and activities that build differentiated and higher order thinking skills. RSVP: http://bpeslbasics.eventbrite.com/

Edmodo + BrainPOP = Differentiating Instruction Wednesday, May 11, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Special guest Paula Naugle, 4th-grade teacher at New Orleans’ Bissonet Plaza Elementary School, shows you how easy it can be to bring Edmodo and BrainPOP into your classroom. Put this pairing to work for you and meet all your students’ needs while you make learning more interesting! RSVP: http://edmodoandbrainpop.eventbrite.com/ *Please note – it can take up to 72 hours to receive a certificate after viewing a webinar and posting a comment. Please make sure educators@brainpop.com is not blocked from your spam filter.

Boy was I excited when my principal and media specialist announced that we finally purchased a BrainPOP subscription for our school. I jumped right in and started using the movies with my 4th graders in social studies. I am fortunate to have been awarded a $15,000 technology grant from my district that allowed me to get a tricked out 21st century classroom – a brand new Promethean board, a class set of Activotes, 15 wireless Dell net books with webcams, plus a whole lot more. Don’t be put off by that, anyone can use BrainPOP with just a computer. Having a computer connected to a projector allows for whole class viewing (which is all I had for years). Let me tell you about our classroom journey from whole group instruction to differentiated instruction with BrainPOP. For several weeks I did whole group instruction and showed all of my students how to login to BrainPOP and find a movie to correspond with our lessons. I would show the movies on the Promethean board, demonstrating how to change to full screen and how to turn on closed captioning (CC). I really love the CC feature, as many students grasp the information better… Read the Rest»

Longtime BrainPOP fan & super star teacher of students with Autism, Andrea Keller, will be joining us this Wednesday for our free webinar, START: Special Tactics for Adapting Resourceful Tools. You can check out the incredible, inspiring work her students have produced here. Please let your colleagues who work with students with special needs (autism, PDD, low & non-verbal) know to RSVP and join us! I have used BrainPOP Jr. in my classroom many times.  My current teaching position is in a PDD (pervasive developmental disorder) unit.  I am a huge advocate for using technology in my classroom.  Often time’s students with special needs do not get the same opportunities and chances to use web 2.0 tools and other technology devices as a regular education student would get. Irving, however, provides many different opportunities to help all students to engage in the same web 2.0 tools as their non-disabled peers.  My students are very low verbal or non-verbal, but we still have opportunities to podcast, vodcast, and video conference. BrainPOP Jr. and BrainPOP offer one more way for students of all abilities to be involved in technology and exciting learning.  I have used BrainPOP Jr. in many different ways.  At… Read the Rest»