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Guest Blogger Nili Bartley on My BrainPOP, Grammar and the Flipped Classroom
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Today's guest blogger, 4th grade teacher Nili Bartley from Hopkinton MA attended our first "Certified BrainPOP Educator" workshop at ISTE 2014 in Atlanta. Read on to learn about Nili's success using ...

Students Discover New Features on BrainPOP!
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Last summer, 4th grade teacher, Nili Bartley, from Hopkinton MA learned about all the new interactive features on BrainPOP during a training at the ISTE conference in Atlanta, GA. Last week, Mrs. Bart...

Learn Principles of Ed Tech and Game Design with EdX online MOOC
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You may be already be familiar with our colleagues at MIT's Education Arcade and Scheller Teacher Education Programs by playing any one of the three Lure of the Labyrinth math games on GameUp! Perhaps...

Free Online Gaming in Education Conference Begins Monday September 15!
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BrainPOP is excited to partner with the Learning Revolution Project for the first annual Gaming in Education Virtual conference. From Building a Local Community of Game-Based Learning Professionals t...

New On BrainPOP: Note-Taking Skills
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Just in time for back to school, we introduce our newest movie topic page - Note-Taking Skills. Start the year with this one and prompt students to use best practices for watching BrainPOP movies all...

Avoiding the “Summer Slump” with Math Games
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Today's guest blogger, Derek Lomas, shares research about the dreaded summer slump and ways to support students from losing progress over the summer. Derek is a learning scientist at Carnegie Mellon ...

What Makes a Great Educational Game? Peek Into Our Game Evaluation Process and GLS 2014
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There are a ton of really great games out there - but a lot of them never make it into the classroom. Why is this? The reasons include poor distribution, technical challenges, and a lack of teacher su...

Teach Coding with Robot Turtles!
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BrainPOP is known for digital animations and games, but we invited guest blogger Charlotte Fixler to share about a fantastic non-digital board game that teaches principles of coding entitled Robot Tur...

Registration is Live for the POPup! Classroom at ISTE 2014
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We're thrilled to be serving as one of ISTE's 2014 sponsors! As part of that sponsorship, we will be hosting a “POPUp Classroom," where we’ll lead a series of professional development sessions. These ...

Make Your Own BrainPOP Animation
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Interested in making your own BrainPOP animation? Emily Smith leads "The Hive Society" a 5th grade Language Arts teacher at Cunningham Elementary in Austin TX. This year alone her student "scholars" h...