Assignment 1: Make-a-Map BrainPOP and Pedagogy

This map assignment is different from the mapping you did during the workshop. This is a media deconstruction exercise designed to help you dive deeply into 1 BrainPOP topic movie and identify 7 structural attributes unique to BrainPOP’s movies. This assignment should take roughly 60-75 minutes.


Objective: Create a concept map illustrating unique features of a BrainPOP movie. Submit your final map within BrainPOP directly to the class that you enrolled in during the workshop.

If you want a refresher about how to use the Make-a-Map tool – check out the support resources on BrainPOP Educators.


Procedure:
Before Mapping – learn about a specific topic

  1. Visit BrainPOP.com or Jr.brainpop.com
  2. Login with the demo student account that you created at the workshop.
  3. Choose any BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr. topic.
  4. Review the list of checklist “moments” below and keep them in mind as you watch the movie.
  5. Take the quiz. Explore the “Activities,” “Related Reading”, and “Q/A”.

Start Mapping!

Choose “Make-a-Map”  Click the camera icon at different moments from the movie and type descriptions in the space below the node. – Add the following 7 “moments” to your Make-a-Map canvas.  You choose to use a template or not.

  1. Guiding Question: What is the guiding question for the movie (in the case of Jr. identify all the guiding questions.)
  2. Visual: A useful visual that demystifies a complex concept or keyword.
  3. Moby’s Beeps: An example of Moby’s beeping and clues that can help students infer the meaning of his beeps. (Teachers love using Moby’s lines to prompt conversations about inference).
  4. Humor: The use of humor to engage the viewer.
  5. Demystification: A sentence or two from the script that you feel clearly articulates something complex.
  6. Pause Points: Two pause points within the movie. Write the question prompt you would use to elicit responses from students.
  7. Tim’s Shirt: The image on Tim’s shirt always matches the topic, what appears on his shirt for the topic you chose? (Tip you should be able to find it in the “images” bank.)
  8. Additional Feature: Considering the activity pages, Related Reading and Q&A – Identify a creative way to use these features of a topic page. – You can use blank nodes for this.
  9. Reflection/Your Note: Select “More” in the left hand column.  Then choose “add note to map.” Write a note describing your concept map and submit to class that you joined at the certification workshop.

*Note that clicking the Make-a-Map camera icon will place the clip onto the canvas that begins 5 seconds before you clicked – this provides context when replaying the clip.

 

Here is an example produced by CBE Robyn McKenny from our Spring 2016 online course.
Notice that the map identifies moments in the Information Privacy BrainPOP movie, but doesn’t retell the story of of the movie. 

concept map about BrainPOP topic Information Privacy