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The new Mixer™ – which lets you remix, customize and craft  your own BrainPOP-style quizzes – is already receiving glowing reviews!   After this week’s overview webinar, members of the BrainPOP Educators community shared their positive reactions. @lwolfe puts it simply: “I love the Mixer!!”  @ccentra raves: “This will help me customize the quiz for each student!”  @sturpin asserts the ability to “customize quizzes will enhance the assessments of standards that we are using in our classrooms.” So have you tried the Mixer yet?  Have you explored our 9,000+  multiple choice and open ended questions?  Have you had the thrill of creating differentiated quiz experiences for your students? What are you waiting for?  Remember that in order to use the Mixer, you’ll need to link your free BrainPOP Educators account with your BrainPOP username and password. Do you have suggestions for how we can improve the Mixer experience?  Since this is our newest feature, we’re especially excited to read your feedback. We want to make this tool the best it can be! Want a quick refresher on how to use the Mixer? Check out this screencast:

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.

Ahh,  the weeks before holiday break:  sentiments of joy and unrestrained excitement compete with the realities of extreme distraction and stress.  In other words, it’s hard to get a lot done!  At BrainPOP, we recognize this and we want to help you get through to the promised land: winter break. How about a little creative BrainPOP art project? Take a look at BrainPOP Educator’s exclusive BrainPOP holiday clip art collection. Load them into your IWB software and tell a winter tale, print ‘em out and have your students make a collage, use them for holiday sight words flashcards, make holiday cards! Using your imagination, there is no limit to what you and your students can do!  We’ve just activated a new feature to upload photographs, and we’re excited to see what you and your students come up with!  So get to work, snap a photo (or save the file with a .jpg or .gif extension),  and share with the community at BrainPOP Educators.  We can’t wait to see what you do!