EdNET's Best for 2011: Teachers Select

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Teachers nominated their favorite free online resources for the EdNET’s Best Teachers Select Award.

EdNET is a community of education business leaders dedicated to providing teachers with the best learning materials and services. This year they created a Teachers Select category for the annual EdNET awards. The results showcase the teacher nominated free online resources that they use and love.

Nominations Included:

  • education blogs
  • free software programs
  • teacher websites
  • free iPad, iPhone and iPod apps

Read what teachers think.

Find out which blogs, websites and other free resources are recommended by other teachers at the EdNET's Best Awards.

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1 Kudos
wschaber

BrainPop

Status: Teacher Select Nomination
by Occasional Contributor on 04-29-2011 11:30 PM

I use BrainPop lessons to help my students make connections between what we are working on right now in English / Writing classes and what they need to know now and for the future.  The videos are interest-catching, even for high schoolers, and they drive home the main points.  I can pause and emphasize what I want them to know.  I can use closed captioning to "force" my students to read as they listen, thus promoting independence in their reading.  I use the quizzes as a whole-class review of the materials just learned, then follow up the next day with a print-out of the same assessment.  This way they are familiar with the assessment instrument and the format, and it reinforces the previous day's lesson content.  I currently only use their English / Writing content, but they have info and video lessons on every core curricular area that I could tap into.

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