Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in BrainPop, NECC, Resources, Student Tech, Tools, Web on Jul 1st, 2008
As attendees of one of BrainPop’s presentations were discussing some of the cool ways that they were using BP in their classrooms, I had a chance to pick up an awesome tip. Monica Nahas, an Instructional Technology Specialist, mentioned that Readwritethink.org has a tool for creating your own comics, and it [...]
Robert Miller, one of the very talented educators traveling with BrainPop at NECC, presented how he uses BrainPop to make science lessons more interactive, something that Robert seems to be quite good at. My first meeting with Robert gave me a chance to see how his 5th grade students took "interactive" to the next level [...]
This week at NECC, BrainPop will be debuting a new section of their site just for teachers. I had a quick chance to look it over yesterday, and was thoroughly excited. The idea behind the section seems to focus around tieing together the network of educators that use their services. So it’s no suprise that [...]
I had a chance today to sit down with a Robert and Lorraine, two of the educators that are here with BrainPop. They will be presenting ideas and best practices for incorporating BrainPop and BrainPop Jr. in the classroom throughout the duration of NECC. The first to be presenting is Lorraine Prince.
Though I’ve talked about [...]
June is finally here, which means that teachers(most) are able to take a small break, sleep in a little more, and rebuild their patience for it to be worn down again in just a few short months. It also means that the premier Ed Tech conference is almost here, NECC. This years conference will be [...]