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Wednesday, March 20th at 3:30 PM ET- BrainPOP and the Flipped Classroom Make homework fun and involve parents: try a “flipped” lesson! We welcome Katie Neville, master educator with more than 40 years of classroom experience and a current Technology Resource Teacher for Loudoun County (VA) public schools. She’ll show you how to build a flipped lesson using BrainPOP resources and our integration with Google. Explore different ways to engage parents and students in the process and hear some alternatives for those who don’t have internet access at home.

Angela Nixon Kiser is a National Board Certified Teacher who works tirelessly to provide interactive and meaningful learning in a technology enriched classroom. Enjoys provides technology tips, fun, and advice through a collaborative blog called www.techieteachertales.blogspot.com New buzz words continuously emerge within our educator community. With the integration of Common Core, the words on everyone’s mind are ‘Flipped Classroom’ and ‘Self-paced Learning.’ Like every educator, I dive into researching what it all means only to realize that I have been doing some form of the flipped classroom for about three years now with my fifth graders. My version starts with a few key ingredients; my Blackboard page, my curriculum, and BrainPOP. My self-paced learning portal started when I needed to provide my students with work that would keep them active and engaged, while I worked with my small groups. Instead of looking for center activities, collecting all the materials, or making copies, I was developing the Digital Natives’ version of centers via the internet. Life became so easy. As I put together the unit of study, I immediately thought of my friends Tim and Moby. With great anticipation, I logged into BrainPOP and searched for related topics to the unit I… Read the Rest»