Posts on “ Mixer ”

BrainPOP Webinar: Beyond the Movies Wednesday, May 1 at 3:30 pm ET  We’re stepping up our monthly overview webinar and exploring resources beyond our movies. We’ll cover GameUp in the classroom as well as the Mixer, giving you the ability to customize assessment by creating and remixing your own BrainPOP-style quizzes. Plus, get a tour of all the recent updates we’ve made to BrainPOP Educators. Event Password: moby

Recognize Earth Awareness month with BrainPOP’s spotlight and the Mixer! Our Earth Awareness spotlight includes environmentally friendly topics such as Wind Energy, Recycling, and Hybrid Cars to reinforce students’ understanding of what they can do to help our environment. We’ve even included lesson plans and games to further support this important topic. Once you’ve taken the time to explore our April spotlight, test your students’ earth awareness by creating a unique, BrainPOP quiz using the Mixer. Choose from hundreds of earth-focused quiz questions, or craft some of your own to customize and remix a quiz that meets the specific needs of your class. To get started, you’ll need a BrainPOP Educators account that is linked to your BrainPOP subscription. For tips and tricks on using this valuable tool, be sure to check out the Mixer screencast.

Wednesday, January 16th at 3:30 PM ET- Customized Assessment With the Mixer If you missed our past Mixer-themed webinars, we’ve got you covered in this hour-long look at our newest tool. Designed to let you create and remix your own BrainPOP quizzes, the Mixer makes it possible to tailor assessment for all your students’ needs. We’ll share ideas and best practices so you can start mixing it up with this valuable teaching resource.

Wednesday, November 7th at 3:00 PM ET- The Mixer and More In September, BrainPOP introduced the Mixer, designed to help you remix and create your own BrainPOP-style quizzes. Join us as we show you how to get started with this new tool and begin creating customized assessments that are tailored specifically to your students’ needs. We’ll also discuss the new ways BrainPOP Educators has simplified your search for relevant teaching resources and made your planning process easier.

Guest Blogger and BrainPOP Educator Kara Wilkins is chair of the Social Studies Department at Hudson Memorial School in Hudson, New Hampshire. My name is Kara Wilkins. I have been teaching at Hudson Memorial Middle School , in Hudson, New Hampshire for fifteen years. I have spent a majority of that time as an eighth grade social studies teacher. For the last three years I have had the pleasure of chairing the Social Studies department as well. Our school purchased a full BrainPOP membership for teachers and students about five years ago and we have never looked back. I have incorporated BrainPOP into every facet of my teaching, from previewing a topic, reviewing a topic and my favorite, at home extension of topics being learned in the classroom. I am also constantly looking for meaningful ways to integrate technology into my classes to increase student engagement so when BrainPOP came out with The Mixer I knew this was going to become an integral part of my classroom routine. Over the years I have purchased various “quiz making” Web 2.0 Tools but I knew that BrainPOP’s would be great because my kids already knew the format, loved Tim and Moby and… 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»

Labor Day is over, school has started and everyone is busy welcoming students back to school. We think you’ll also be glad to welcome the newest tool from BrainPOP: our Mixer™! The Mixer™ allows you to create, remix and share your own BrainPOP-style quizzes. Search our growing library of over 9,000 multiple choice questions, plus NEW open-ended questions! Grab any that you like, and edit them as you see fit. Or, write your own questions and share your work with other users. The Mixer™ is a free utility for BrainPOP subscribers with a profile on BrainPOP Educators. Visit our registration page to make sure your current BrainPOP account information is associated with your BrainPOP Educators profile. You can find the Mixer™ here. Go ahead, give it a try! Or, watch the embedded video for an overview demonstration. Since the Mixer is new, we’re excited to see how you put it to use and what you think about it. Don’t hesitate to send us your feedback.

Wednesday, June 27 3:00PM ET: ISTE Recon Didn’t get a chance to attend ISTE 2012 in San Diego? Have no fear, BrainPOP is here! ISTE is the ed tech conference of all ed tech conferences and BrainPOP will make some important announcements! You won’t want to miss the exciting news about new features and enhancements you’ve been asking for! If you were lucky enough to attend the conference, be sure to log on and share some of your thoughts about our newest features too.