Tuesday, October 29, 2019

BrainPOP

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BrainPOP is an educational to to put in your teaching arsenal. For many young teachers this site will be a nostalgic trip but for your students, it offers an easily accessible site with loads of different materials. It has extensive content on most subjects found in primary and secondary school. Graphics also illustrate the content that is being clicked on by students, allowing for clear structure of the website. An amazing quality of this website is how it structures and displays the information when you have reached a subject. The UI (User Interface) is extremely impressive. Let's say you have reached Polynomials after going from Math to Algebra, It presents you with clear cut options on what BrainPOP provides. For every micro-subject they provide. there is an available movie, quiz, related readings, vocabulary, game and more. 

A negative aspect of the site is that it requires funding to fully access the content. Some of the content is free and most of it requires  subscription to play. Another gripe with this content is the ambiguous difference between what is free and what is not. For a teacher, access to the full website will cost $230.00 for a year and for a school, it would cost $1,895.00. I think this would be an amazing site for a school to buy, allowing for unlimited access to the site.

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