POPtalk

Wednesday 10th October at 16:00 BST: BrainPOP and Creativity on your iPad

Whether you have access to an Apple device or not, you can still sign up and benefit from this webinar. You’ll learn how to use our full access Featured Movie App as a classroom and homework tool.

We’ll show you how to get moby-lised by demonstrating features of our full access Featured Movie App and also talk about other apps you can use – like Puppet Pals and Book Creator - to ensure you take full advantage of mobile access.

We can provide certificates of participation upon completion. 

How do I sign up for a webinar?

The link above will take you to Eventbrite where you can register quickly and easily. You’ll receive an email confirmation from Eventbrite including the link to the webinar which you click when the time comes.

I’m not a BrainPOP subscriber, can I still participate? 

Of course! Our webinars are open to anyone interested in sharing best classroom practice and innovations in education.

We do, however, recommend you take out a free trial in advance of any webinars so you can fully participate and contribute to any discussion: Take out a free trial.

If you’ve considered taking out a trial or subscribing, the webinar could be just the guide you need to inform your decision.

All past webinars will be available in an archive so, if there’s a topic you’re interested in and you can’t attend that day, keep a look out for the link to the recorded webinar appearing later.

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Mark Anderson (a.k.a. ICT Evangelist) and teachers at Clevedon School in North Somerset have been trying out the BrainPOP featured movie and app in various different classes throughout the school. He’s kindly provided a mini case study on how they’ve integrated BrainPOP into their vertical tutor groups.

“Clevedon School is a large 11-18 Outstanding School in North Somerset, just south west of Bristol. We operate a vertical tutor system where students from years 7 to 11 are mixed up in each tutor group.

So in any tutor group you normally have a few students from every year group. In our tutor times students regularly complete vertical activities, one of which is the use of BrainPOP.

We use BrainPOP because it is so easy to use, it really engages students of all ages (we complete the activities in vertical pairs) and the content is really clear and easy to understand.

“I really like it because it is fun and I always learn something” one student said to me from Year 9.

The BrainPOP free daily Featured Movie is a often a calendar aligned event. This is particularly good because it always means that whatever activity you are doing, there’s likely to be a relevant topic to the day.

More recently, Clevedon School have been trialling the use of iPads in education and I’m one of the trial leaders and have been using the BrainPOP iPad app in my tutor times.

The best thing here is that the content is right at the students’ fingertips – it’s right in front of them. Here, the content is brought alive and students can easily share and look at progress on each other’s activities as they move through. It certainly gets the students motivated and focused at the beginning of the school day.

We also provide opportunities for 6th form students to go back to their lower school tutor group to mentor students and free up the member of staff to do some small group work and mentoring with selected students. BrainPOP is a favourite resource for the 6th form students to use with the younger students.

Even with no planning or preparation it affords them the framework to run a session that everyone can engage with. It provides them with a high quality resource that they can rely on to deliver a message, support an area of the curriculum or spark a discussion.

The fact that BrainPOP uses seasonal themes and makes the most of anniversaries and other important dates means that they are always able to deliver something relevant and interesting to a group of students with diverse interests and educational needs.

I have seen it used to great effect to build confidence in 6th formers, giving them valuable experience and confidence in front of a class or in terms of public speaking. We all know how good it feels to be able to rely on a resource because we always know the quality is second to none.”

Mark Anderson, Head of ICT

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Whether you’re heading off on holiday shortly, or you’re staying put for your summer break, we thought we’d remind you, in a not very eloquent or grammatically correct style, that we ain’t goin’ nowhere!

We’ll still be answering the phones if you have any questions and Tim & Moby will still be answering your questions all summer long.

1. Send Tim & Moby home to Mums and Dads.

BrainPOP is a great tool for encouraging parental engagement. If you have a 24/7 school subscription we’ve provided a letter template for you to alter as you see fit and send home with the kids at the end of term.

Simply download the template, alter as you see fit, send home with your pupils, and the learning can go on all summer.

Download the letter template

2. Get a BrainPOP hit every day with our Daily Featured Movie.

As well as featuring a different movie for free on the homepage every day, the same movie features on our free featured movie App and our POPbox.

You can download our free App from the iTunes store to access our featured movie on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch.

Or, if you fancy seeing our featured movie on your own website or blog every day,  request a POPbox .

3. Have no fear, Tim & Moby will be here

You might have a fresh set of eager minds to engage and inspire in the new school term and we’re sure you’re already thinking of ways to tackle the post-summer gloom (or, back to school over-excitement!) with gusto. Let Tim & Moby help your students get back in their learning stride.

Use Deep Beep, our curriculum matching tool, to see if there are topics mapped to the curriculum you’ll be following in the new term.

And remember that we add new topics to the site every week – and we’ll keep it up all summer long! We’re certain there’ll be a few new bright gems to capture your own bright gems’ attention: What’s new?

One final point…remember to stay safe in the sun and don’t let an orange robot anywhere near your suntan lotion. You have been warned.

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