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BrainPOP Mobile: Learning at Your Fingertips Wednesday, November 30th 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Discover how BrainPOP’s Featured Movie iOS app, newly updated to enable access to all of our movies and quizzes, brings learning to students’ fingertips! We’ll show you creative ways to use the app throughout the day; you’ll also see how it can be used as a modification tool. You’ll wonder how you ever taught without it!  

Take Off, Migrate to Another Homeschool Option Wednesday, May 26 *6:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Join us today as homeschooling mom Sue Ferrara, PhD, and BrainPOP’s Allisyn Levy team up to walk you through a homeschool lesson with BrainPOP. Using Birds as an entry point, Sue shares her entire process to motivating her daughter to learn, to planning, to executing the lesson. You will leave inspired to bring new life into your homeschool curriculum. Click on the following link to RSVP: http://homeschooloptions.eventbrite.com

Jenny Williams, our Homeschool Advisor, shares her tactics for delving deep into BrainPOP Jr. and each of the interactive features. Join our free webinar next Wednesday for more on Using BrainPOP for Homeschooling, and today for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Enrich Home Learning. BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. are perfect tools for homeschooling. They present subjects in a fun and informative way, yet leave the door wide open for further exploration when something piques your children’s interest. If you use BrainPOP materials along with your children, you can then immediately answer any questions they have, and help them along with the activities if they get stuck. While the more advanced BrainPOP is full of informative, fun, and useful videos and activities, for the most part my children aren’t quite old enough yet to make the most of it. So we have spent most of our time with BrainPOP Jr. For each of the subjects we have tackled, we have started with the faster options of watching the video, reading Pop a Joke and Belly Up, playing the Game, and sometimes doing the Activity. I have also had them do the quizzes. But for the most part, we have left the Draw About It, Write About It, Read About It,… Read the Rest»

Join us in May for one of our free weekly webinars, taking place every Wednesday at 4:30 pm EDT unless otherwise noted. This month, special guests cover a range of topics beginning with “Student Teachers: Using BrainPOP for Studying for Certification Tests” (May 5). Next up is “Special Tactics for Adapting Resourceful Tools” (May 12 at 6:30 pm EDT), followed by “Using BrainPOP to Enrich Home Learning” (May 19), and “Take Off, Migrate to Another Homeschool Option” (May 26 at 6:30 pm EDT). Get the details and RSVP – space is limited. Did you miss a past webinar? Visit our Archives.   If you have questions, would like to tell us what you thought of the webinars you’ve attended, or have ideas for new webinars, please post comments below!

Jenny Williams is a homeschooling mom and tech guru. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us, Jenny! I can’t remember when I learned about BrainPOP, but it was at least a couple of years ago. The site appealed to me, with its colorful design, fun look, and educational content. I knew my kids would love it. I knew that adding BrainPOP content to our homeschooling schedule would add some real variety and interest, especially since my kids are very visual learners. Since my kids are in early elementary school (third grade and kindergarten), we concentrated mostly on BrainPOP Jr. My eight year old daughter grasped all the concepts there with ease. My five year old son watched most of the videos with us and soaked up most of what we learned. We also saw many of the regular BrainPop videos for added enrichment. BrainPop Jr. is so valuable that I think we have done every applicable topic on the site. We skipped a few of the basics, such as Phonics, since both of my kids already know how to read. But we fell into a rhythm of how we went about each page. We started out by watching the video…. Read the Rest»

Join us for our new monthly webinar offerings! This month we’re featuring 2 new topics.  Please be sure to specify which webinar you are interested in when RSVPing. A Homeschooler’s Guide to BrainPOP Wednesday, May 13th 2 p.m. EDT Homeschool educators, learn how to make the most out of your subscription to BrainPOP. In this hour-long session, we’ll cover a range of topics from assessment techniques to interactive features, and we’ll share some great ideas for effective planning. We’ll also explore BrainPOP Jr., for K-3 learners, and all the resources available through BrainPOP Educators. RSVP to this webinar BrainPOP Jr.: The Basics and Beyond Wednesday, May 27th 2 p.m. EDT Get to know the ins and outs of our K-3 resource in this hour-long webinar. Learn how to use BrainPOP Jr. for more effective planning, and hear best practices for integrating our content into your classroom routines. We’ll also talk about the tools and features you’ll find on BrainPOP Educators. RSVP to this webinar If you missed last month’s webinar, Introduction to BrainPOP – A Newcomers Guide, fear not! You can find it archived here. Did you find our webinar(s) helpful? Let us know. Got suggestions? Tell us those too!… Read the Rest»