Year: 2013
Inquiry Based Exploration with TechChef Lisa Johnson
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TechChef Lisa Johnson shared about inquiry based learning and documenting student work in the BrainPOP booth at ISTE 2013. Check out her "Thinklink" and do some "inquiry based" exploration yourself!
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BrainPOP is now available on Kindle FreeTime Unlimited!
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Are you a Kindle Fire user with a subscription to Kindle FreeTime Unlimited? If so, take note! That subscription now includes FREE Explorer level access to both BrainPOP's Featured Movie app and Brain...
How Kids Play Games: Teachable Moments in Refraction and Treefrog Treasure
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Guest blogger Eleanor O'Rourke of the University of Washington shares her reflections on a study of how children and adults play two of GameUp's games, Refraction and Treefrog Treasure.
Adults and ...
BrainPOP Partners Awarded Top Honors at Games For Change
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Congratulations to both Learning Games Network (LGN) and Filament Games, winners in this year's Game For Change Awards. The Games for Change organization has a noble mission to "catalyze social impac...
GameUp and Becoming a BrainPOP Star!
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Guest Blogger Jenny Brandon is a Technology Teacher at Lauderdale Middle School, Ripley, TN. She is also the Technology Liaison for the West Tennessee Writing Project, an Ed.S. Instructional Leadersh...
Professional Development with BrainPOP Educators
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Guest blogger and Technology Integration Specialist for the Madison School District (Phoenix, AZ), Kim Thomas, shares her experience using BrainPOP Educators for professional development.
In th...
BrainPOP is Headed to ISTE 2013!
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San Antonio, here we come! BrainPOP will be at the 2013 ISTE conference from June 23-26, and we’re excited to share all of the new features and resources we’ve been working on.
We’ll be showcasing ou...
Addition Blocks Comes to GameUp
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Addition Blocks is the newest math game to be featured on GameUp! Back in 2011, the Federal Department of Education’s Digital Promise Initiative announced the STEM Video Game Challenge, and Georgia b...
Making Student BrainPOP Videos – First Grade Teacher Lauren Bounds Shares her Process
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Lauren Bounds is a 1st Grade teacher at the Thackston School in Knoxville, TN. In this guest blog post, Lauren tells the story of using BrainPOP as inspiration for making a solar system movie with her...
BrainPOP in Mooresville NC – a Video from EdWeek
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Mooresville North Carolina has gotten national publicity for their successful implementation of a one-to-one laptop program. So we were thrilled to see that BrainPOP was featured in a video about Moor...