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Wednesday 24th October at 18:30 BST: Google Apps and Project Based Learning with Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer, Ian Addison

Join VIB Ian Addison, ICT Co-ordinator at St John the Baptist Primary School and Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer, to learn how the seamless integration between BrainPOP and Google Apps provides great benefits for teachers and students, allowing learners to collaborate in real time with each other and with their teacher.

You’ll see what the integration looks like and Ian will show examples of how the Google Apps Platform is ideal for student led learning.

We can provide certificates of participation upon completion. 

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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.

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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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10 year old Grace is a Digital Leader at St John the Baptist Primary. Leader by name, leader by nature, Grace took it upon herself to review BrainPOP UK, which we’re very proud (with her permission) to reproduce in full here.

Hello. My name is Grace and this is why I think BrainPOP is great for learning.

Firstly, BrainPOP helps anyone learn anything even if they learn in a different way to other people. I, for example, learn by seeing things in front of me but my friend learns by hearing things.

Does that mean we can’t learn together? No – we have BrainPOP!

In the BrainPOP videos the characters Tim and Moby don’t only show you how to do whatever you are learning about- they tell you as well, that means me and my friend can learn together!

As well as this the videos are funny, colourful and informative, this makes learning fun and more like watching a cartoon – basically tricking children into learning (sneaky teachers)!

I noticed that when we use BrainPOP in class even the children who don’t enjoy learning become excited.

I even use BrainPOP at home.

For example; I enjoy knowing things ahead of others so when I heard about binary numbers I got excited, firstly I asked my parents to explain these strange binary numbers, although they are extremely intelligent when my parents explained I still found binary numbers confusing.

Then I went on BrainPOP!

Using humor as well as information Tim and Moby told me all about binary numbers and now I know more about them than one of the most clever people in my school!

This is why I think BrainPOP is an amazing tool for learning!

All we can say is, thank you Grace, we salute you.

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We were pleased as punch to be featured on Under Ten Minutes, a new blog venture set up to share videos demoing Educational technology…in under 10 minutes!

The idea is simply to post and share short video guides to any new tech you’re using in the classroom. So, among the BrainPOP’s of the world, there are also videos about using Prezi, Animoto, Wordle…all sorts of useful teaching tools and tips.

Anyone can make a video and upload it. There’s only one rule – no sales pitches allowed. Learn how to become a contributor to Under 10 Minutes.

So, without further ado, here’s BrainPOP UK in under 10 mins from one of our very own VIBs, Ian Addison. We couldn’t have done it better ourselves!

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We heard, via Twitter, that Ian Addison was initiating a “Digital Leaders” program, giving kids more responsibility over the ICT in school. A task the digital leaders were charged with was to promote use of the school’s ICT products to the teachers, one of which was BrainPOP.

Digital leaders sounded like a fascinating and empowering initiative so we invited Ian to do a short guest blog:

“At my school there are a lot of jobs for the ICT Coordinator to do. This can range from serious events like planning the ICT curriculum and ordering software to the day-to-day tasks like adding photos to the school website or updating the blogs.

At my school, we have a group of children who help with some of these jobs. They are known as the digital leaders and they range from year 3 to year 6 (after Easter we will be ‘employing’ some year 1-2 children as well) and they write blog posts, run ICT clubs and test new software for me.

Example jobs might be:

• Running 3/4 or 5/6 ICT Club
• Blogging for our outdoor curriculum
• Updating pictures on the website
• Updating pictures on the TV screen in the reception
• Setting up a webcam at lunchtime for us to watch animals in Africa

At our last inset day, the children ran a few workshops which included showing teachers how to blog, how to create photo slide shows and how to use BrainPOP UK. The children planned the session and Matthew in Year 5 has written a few words about his experience…

“We showed teachers what the government recommends for children in primary school should be learning. Also we showed them the variety of different subjects. They all loved BrainPOP! Also my favourite video is teeth because it gives you loads of knowledge about teeth. To improve you could do different, like you could add cooking and other stuff and not just do the main subjects. I think BrainPOP is an outstanding way to learn!”

You can read more on Ian’s Digital Leaders project on his blog.

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