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K-12 online learning is a rapidly developing form of education and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, or iNACOL, has made it their goal to enhance the quality of such programs.  To provide virtual school educators with an opportunity for professional development, iNACOL hosts their annual conference, the Virtual School Symposium.  This year, the Virtual School Symposium will be hosted in New Orleans from October 21-24 and they’ve issued a call for proposals. Are you a virtual school educator who creatively uses BrainPOP in your curriculum?  Share your ideas and experiences with your fellow educators and submit a proposal to present at the symposium!  If you’re unsure of where to begin, contact us at BrainPOP Educators and we’d be happy to help you with your proposal.  The deadline for proposals is April 23, 2012.  

My friend Steve Hargadon has been hard at work for months putting together the conference of the year… the 2010 Global Education Conference. The free conference takes place November 15-19 online, and is dedicated to highlighting opportunities for globally connected education activities. Sessions are held in multiple time zones and in multiple languages. BrainPOP is thrilled to be a conference partner! My colleague, Dr. Kari Stubbs will be doing a keynote presentation, “Lessons Learned from the Chilean Miner Rescue,” tomorrow at 11am Eastern, and I will presenting a session on exploring “The Value of Online Communities for Educators” today at 5pm Eastern. I’m overwhelmed by how many presentations look good to me! You can attend as many sessions as you want – they are all free! Check out the schedule here. Planning on attending or presenting? Let us know! Familiar with Elluminate and want to volunteer? Click here!

This just in: Our middle school club, Girls Learn International is having a virtual field trip about American Women in Sports, Title IX at our library this Friday. I have been asked to present some statistical data about this subject. Our students are creating a topical scrapbook for their sister school in Afghanistan. Would you have any suggestions how to use BrainPOP with this subject? Thank you. Moira Abraham Suggestions? Please post below!

I’m a middle school math teacher at Minnesota Connections Academy and have been using BrainPOP within my online classroom for almost 4 years now.  Since my students are all online we meet within a virtual classroom where I have the option to share my screen with them so as a class we can watch a BrainPOP video together.  I then assign them activities to do as well as pick out extra assignments from the FYI area.  We also really love looking at the comics under the FYI section together.  The amount of material that is covered in BrainPOP is amazing and I am constantly finding something new each time I check the website out.  One of the greatest finds so far this year is BrainPOP Educators and all the extra add-ons within there. My students share their work by emailing me their test results.  They also WebMail me things that they learned by reading the extra articles under the FYI section.  Finally, within my virtual classroom we will pull questions from the quizzes and answer them through a poll tool. Thank you BrainPOP for making learning more fun for me and my students! Are you an online teacher? How are… Read the Rest»