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Educational Technology at IU13

BrainPop Bulletin - December 2023

Posted by Tim Leister on Thu, Nov 30, 2023

BrainPop Bulletin

The monthly BrainPOP Bulletin is designed to provide inspiration for your classroom. Every month, their bulletin will have fresh instructional ideas, classroom swag, and community announcements for classroom teachers. 

This Month's Question - How can your Teacher Reports drive more targeted instruction?

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Inform reteaching with data -

The teacher dashboard is the secret ingredient to your students’ success. Watch this month’s tip to learn how to use your data to pinpoint opportunities for more targeted, just-in-time instruction in one simple scan.

 

Try it today!

After assigning a Quiz, check the results in your Teacher Reports. You’ll be able to find trouble spots for students. Once you know those, finding which moments to reteach and return to in the Movie are a lot clearer. 

 

Also in this month's Bulletin...

Watch "Behind the BrainPOP Scenes" to meet the voice of Annie, and be sure to download free BrainPOP swag to have a big, orange robot to brighten up your classroom.

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Topics: BrainPop

BrainPop Bulletin - September 2023

Posted by Tim Leister on Thu, Sep 28, 2023

BrainPop Bulletin

The monthly BrainPOP Bulletin is designed to provide inspiration for your classroom. Every month, this bulletin will have fresh instructional ideas, classroom swag, and community announcements for classroom teachers. 

October's Question - How can we encourage more focused, purposeful movie viewing?

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Watch, Discuss, Rewatch - The lights may be out when you press play, but this movie-viewing strategy will make students' minds light up. Visit the current BrainPop Bulletin to learn about one way to make movies a more active part of your class, while providing an opportunity to practice essential literacy skills. 

 

Essential Literacy Skills

Rewatching a movie and assigning Pause Points after class discussion does more than boost engagement the second time around. Students will have a chance to practice essential literacy skills, while you add data in your dashboard that tracks proficiency.

 

Also in this month's Bulletin...

Watch best advice through "Teacher Stories" and download free BrainPOP swag to have a big, orange robot to brighten up any room.

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Topics: BrainPop

BrainPOP Connect 2022

Posted by IU13 IMS on Mon, Aug 8, 2022

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Topics: BrainPop

New BrainPOP Features: Pause Points & Immersive Reader!

Posted by IU13 IMS on Tue, Mar 8, 2022

Pause Points
BrainPOP pause points are now LIVE! These screenshots show the new interactive way to watch BrainPOP videos - pause points! As of now, their top 50 most watched videos include interactive questions. Each screenshot (pictured below) shows a variation of the pause points feature.
Immersive Reader
Pause points may be more limited, but Immersive Reader has come to all Quizzes! Students can now have questions from Quizzes read aloud to them with a click of a button! 
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Topics: BrainPop

BrainPOP January 2022 Feature Release

Posted by IU13 IMS on Mon, Jan 24, 2022

Content Filtering Tools Launched January 23

As of January 23, every BrainPOP school and district administrator can access Content Management Tools directly by clicking the "Manage Content" link in the Administrator Dashboard. 

These new tools enable you to define grade-level access to content across BrainPOP’s 1,100+ topics, allowing increased support in determining a topic's developmental appropriateness for your school community.

    • Turn on/off access to content by school or district
    • Filter and browse topics by grade level
    • Enable “Teacher View” for teachers to view their filtered topics and ensure students only view the approved content
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Topics: BrainPop