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If you missed the chance to venture into the Arctic with IMAX, we’ve got you covered!  In our April 25th webinar, we were joined by filmmaker Shaun MacGillivray and WWF’s polar bear expert, Geoff York, while we discussed the changing Arctic region and IMAX’s newest movie, To The Arctic.  Shaun and Geoff shared some fascinating facts about the making of the film, as well as some valuable resources you can use while teaching your students about the threatened Arctic wilderness. The Adventures of Charlie Mac is a fabulous picture book teachers can integrate into their class’s study about the Arctic and give students the opportunity to view the region through the eyes of a child.  The film’s companion book is another wonderful resource that offers beautiful pictures of a region that most people will never see and can give students a better understanding of the rapidly changing environment.  The U.S. Global Change Research Program offers some excellent educator resources to guide teachers in building lessons focused on climate change.  Additionally, IMAX has created a cross-curricular educator’s guide with activities and lesson ideas for teachers to use in the classroom. The Arctic is in need of your help!  To find out… Read the Rest»

What do you get when you combine creativity, good humor, and an interest in educational technology? The beginnings of a great comic strip or cartoon for the ISTE Daily Leader! ISTE welcomes all kids and adults to submit a comic or cartoon for possible showcasing in their newspaper of record during the annual ISTE conference in Philadelphia, June 26-29. The scoop: *Create a comic displaying something funny about technology in education or the ISTE conference *Single panel or up to 3 panels, must fit within the 8th page (4.75 in W X 3.4 in H) *Appropriate for an audience of all ages *Include name, age, location (institution, city, state/province, and country) and technology used (if any) *Submit as a high-resolution PDF or jpg at 300 dpi *Must be original and not previously published To be considered, entries must be submitted via email to Editor Kate Conley, kconley@iste.org by June 3, 2011. For full details, click here. Want to get your students involved but not sure where to start? Use BrainPOP topics like Traditional Animation, Dialogue, and Drawing to build background knowledge.  Explore BrainPOP Jr.’s Belly Up and BrainPOP’s FYI comics for ideas and examples, you’ll find one cheeky comic with each… Read the Rest»

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»