Posts on “ IWB ”

Guest blogger, Felecia Young, is a 9th grade math teacher at Salisbury High School, in Salisbury NC. She is a passionate educator committed to creating an educational environment where all students can be successful through the use of integrating fun digital tools.  One of the best digital lessons I’ve ever done was with the use of BrainPOP and ActivExpressions. BrainPOP and ActivExpressions gave me the opportunity to create lessons that are engaging and interactive. One day while in class, I came across BrainPOP and watched the video. I clicked on Quizzes and I saw shining lights around ActivExpressions and ActiVotes. Were my eyes deceiving me? Can my students use ActivExpressions to take a BrainPOP quiz? Yes, it was true! What a perfect combination! But, will it work with my high school students? I was very skeptical about showing a BrainPOP video to a group of high school students, but to my surprise they were very excited to see Tim and Moby appear on the screen. We went through the video and students took notes on one of the printable activity sheets on BrainPOP’s site. After the video, I wanted to see how much the students retained, so I told them… Read the Rest»

Roosevelt Middle School educator Todd LaVogue recently received the first-place Educators Choice Award for his project “What’s Up Egypt?” during Microsoft’s Partners in Learning U.S. Forum. LaVogue is one of 16 U.S. educators who will attend the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum in Prague, Czech Republic, in November.  My name is Todd LaVogue. For the past three years I taught sixth and eighth grade history at Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida. I enter each unit of study with the idea of taking something the students know and enjoy and combining it with the material mandated by the state that should be taught during the unit. My students, in turn, create television shows, plays, public service announcements and music videos within our unit of study. In one of our more recent projects, my students researched and created an ancient Egypt Today show-style news program with news, weather, sports, cooking, lifestyle, historical and music segments. For example, the weather segment discussed the annual flooding of the Nile and how that was essential to life in ancient Egypt through the depositing of silt on the banks, fertilizing crops. We accomplished this by infusing technology into the curriculum. Using a… Read the Rest»

iRespond and BrainPOP: The Answer You’re Looking For! Wednesday, December 21st 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Put technology right in your students’ hands and engage them on a new level. Our special guest Chris Haon – 3rd grade teacher at Murdock Elementary in Marietta, Georgia – shows you how to integrate the iRespond student response system with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes. See how easy it is to use the two resources together – and even create your own quiz questions!  

Make Your IWB Lessons POP Wednesday, October 5 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Using BrainPOP and an interactive whiteboard? Don’t miss this webinar designed with you in mind. Special guest Mike Jones, Life Science teacher and trainer, demonstrates the role of image capture in creating activities through the magic of “erase” and “reveal” techniques. You’ll explore methods like grouping and an array of resources for clickers and the image gallery. Leave with all kinds of ideas about how to make your lessons POP!

BrainPOP Educator, Jenaya Shaw, is a teacher at B.B. Harris Elementary in Duluth, GA. Jenaya is passionate about incorporating hands-on differentiated activities into her daily instruction.  Jenaya’s website, The Lesson Plan Diva!, provides free resources and lesson ideas for teachers to use in the classroom. Imagine for a moment that you are a first grader in my classroom, “engaged, intrigued, motivated and ready to learn!”  How does this happen? Well, it’s simple. Make your instruction meaningful, rigorous and better yet…fun!  One of the most important ways is by incorporating technology into my daily lessons and regularly using BrainPOP as a part of my mini lessons. Let’s focus on a Language Arts lesson on nouns. The class starts out by watching BrainPOP’s Noun movie.  As a class we discuss some of the important parts from the movie.  Next, we do “turn and talks,” where students discuss things they’ve learned with their immediate neighbor. We then use one of the awesome activities, Speedy Nouns, on the Lesson Ideas page.  Different colored post-its are passed out to partnered groups, and students then race to label all of the nouns they can find in the classroom.

Recorded December 21st 2011. Put technology right in your students’ hands and engage them on a new level.  Our special guest Chris Haon – 3rd grade teacher at  Murdock Elementary in Marietta, GA – shows you how to integrate the iRespond student response system with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. quizzes.  See how easy it is to use the two resources together – and even create your own quiz questions! Click here to listen!