BrainPOP UK’s Advisory Board reviews our content and works closely with us to create a fun and educational resource. Julie Yaxley Julie has taught as a Primary and Secondary teacher, and as a lecturer in Initial Teacher Training. She has written and edited for journals and magazines, including the TES. Julie has also advised and helped develop digital resources for schools, including the award winning CD-ROM, ‘Simulation Explorer’, for Granada Leaning. Currently engaged in action research into Dyslexia in Primary schools, Julie is also involved in CPD communities and teaches, part-time, in primary schools. Roger Hurn Roger Hurn has been a primary school teacher, a deputy head teacher, a head teacher, a university lecturer and a teacher trainer. Roger has also been a consultant advisor to the Home Office and the Children’s Directorate on how to help children develop a positive attitude to school. Roger is now a full-time writer and storyteller and has travelled all over the UK and beyond making author visits to schools. His book East of the Sun, West of the Moon was chosen by Scholastic as one of their ‘Great Read’ books for World Book Day 2009. Roger has also written two series of the best selling Mystery Mob books for less able readers as well as a wide range of educational resources. Anne Sparrowhawk Anne Sparrowhawk started work in the educational publishing industry, and has been involved with computers and education, since the 1980s. She has worked on lots of projects looking at how software can develop children’s learning, both at home and at school. She has been involved in the creation of many programs, and in particular, in running trials during the development phase. Other projects have involved researching how teachers and pupils use resources in the classroom, and this practical understanding is very important as a way of informing new product developments. She also is a director of TEEM, which is a website publishing evaluations that teachers have written of software for classroom use.