Teachers use BrainPOP UK in lots of different ways – but almost all find BrainPOP UK an invaluable resource to deliver their plans for teaching and learning.
Most of our teachers find the movies they need by starting with the 6 topics shown on our lovely home page and exploring from there.
But some teachers want a more targeted search or browse, perhaps to compliment a lesson plan or react to a world event.
We are looking for Primary and Secondary teachers in the UK to help us build version 2 of our planning support tool for later this year.
You can find version 1 right here: http://www.brainpop.co.uk/support/standards_correlations.weml
We’re still very new and our first attempt is just about OK. And just OK isn’t OK for us. We think it can be much better. We have some ideas, but…
We are looking for a handful of teachers who are already BrainPOP UK subscribers or on the free trial to tell us how they’d improve this important bit of the site. If you don’t have current access to BrainPOP UK then you can sign up for a 30 day trial here .
We’re not big fans of focus groups (they tend to tell you what you want to hear). We essentially want to hear honest feedback that starts with: “As a teacher using BrainPOP UK I would love to be able to…“.
It’s the … that’s the important bit.
These points may help spark your feedback neurons:
- Is it easy to find what you need? Or do you ever fail to find something of use?
- Is the tagging clear and appropriate? What words do you use?
- Is the user experience a good one? How would you like it to work?
- Are working to a curriculum we haven’t tagged against? Would you like us to?
- Can you link us to another planning tool that you use, or describe elements of other tools that you particularly liked? Who does it best in your opinion?
- Is there any functionality that you WISH it did and you tear your hair out because it doesn’t? Examples might be “Let me build a playlist of movies” or “Print out the whole Science list” button. Perhaps you want to filter by movie length?
- Is “Curriculum planning tool” even the right name – what would you call it?
We don’t promise to implement every idea but every idea is hugely valuable.
You can feedback or simply let us know you’d be up for helping when the time comes in a number of ways:
info@brainpop.co.uk
0800 141 2404
Or simply comment below!
Which ever way you do it we need to know who you are. Because if you do manage to get round to helping we will treat you to something nice 
