3rd grader, Jordan D. attended work with her father on Take Your Child to Work Day. Since part of Dad’s job is blogging on behalf of our team, we asked Jordan and her sister to write their own blogposts. This is Jordan’s first blogpost ever. We hope to see many more from here on.
Today I went to work with my father. Today we fixed a computer. My sister came with us. We had so much fun. We went to lunch with my mother. We came back. My father had to help Mark and friends put boxes in a truck. Me and Kaleigh got stuck in an elevator. We came back up and we found our father looking for us. The End.
Today is take your kid work day and I am at work with my dad. He works at the School District Office in the Educational Technology Department.
So while I am here I am going to blog about Brainpop. Brainpop is an informational website.
This website has two characters–one is a guy named Tim the other is a robot named Moby. They are the ones that teach you the information.
Brainpop can help you to study for a test. Brainpop has all kinds of ways to study. They have videos, games with information in them. It has quizzes that help a lot too.
I think Tim and Moby make things easy to understand. But some times Moby’s beeps are hard to make out. You can learn about Science, Math, Art, Music, Social Studies, English, Health, and Technology. You can basically type in anything you want to search for and it will give you a list of videos and resources about your topic.
Brainpop is good for grades 4th and up. There is another website called Brainpop Jr. That website is for grades 1st and up to 3rd grade.
I wish all my classes had me go on Brainpop all the time. When a big test comes around now you know where to go.
I’m a serious softball player so I liked this picture of Moby talking about baseball. But they really should have a movie about girls playing softball, don’t you think? After all, girls rule!
This is one of those “two-fer” postings where you get two news items for the price of one. Cool huh?
First off, we’re compiling information right now about our own Palm Beach Technology Conference and we’d love to hear from you! In fact, we’re so anxious to get your feedback that we’re giving away an iPod Nano to an individual who completes our survey and provides us with their contact information. We’ll be using this information to plan next year’s conference and we can use all the feedback we can get. So, if you haven’t done so already, run, don’t walk, to the Particpant Survey for the 2009 Technology Conference and let us know what you loved, and maybe didn’t love so much, about this year’s show.
Next up is news from the Florida Educational Technology Conference, otherwise known as FETC.
FETC is launching its first-ever virtual technology conference to be held this Thursday, April 23rd with a keynote presentation kicking things off at 11:00 am, followed by some interesting presentations from a wide range of speakers. I’m curious about the panel discussion that will take place in the afternoon, titled “Impact of the Federal Stimulus Package on Districts and Schools”. Other topics may speak to you, so be sure to check it out and visit the schedule of events and list of speakers that you’ll find on their web site.
Registration is required, but the virtual conference is free, so head on over and sign up here!
