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Welcome to a brief introduction to BrainPop.com
The first thing you have to do to get started in BrainPop is to enter BrainPop.com as your URL
Once in the website, if you have a log in you can click in the upper right had corner and enter your login and password.
If you don�t have a login there are still a number of things you can do for free on the BrainPop.com web site.
If you click in the Search box in the upper left hand corner and begin to type you will see a pop down box appear.
You may select from the pop-down list and select search �
And BrainPop will attempt to match with a list of items that match your search item.
We�re going to select Ice Age for our task today.
Once inside the BrainPop topic page, each page is similar in setup and design.
You can click in the center portion to play a brief movie �
You can click on CC to open closed captioning �
You can pause the movie at any time and rewind �
You can enlarge the screen to take up your entire monitor �
You can also look at similar related topics, to the topics you are investigating.
If you enter FYI you can see Theories � other ideas on the same topic �
And Q & A provides a listener letter on the topic.
If you click on comic, you actually get a cute little comic on the topic.
Click on BrainPop at any time to go back to the main menu.
Or utilize the back button.
To get back to where you were.
There are Activities that you can interact with �
These activities come in the form of Graphic Organizers or Vocabulary Sheets.
You can click inside the form and type your response.
Or you can print the sheet and do it old school style.
Additionally, there are quizzes to help you check your comprehension.
There�s what they call the Review Quiz which allows you the opportunity to provide the correct answer
And if you don�t it will eventually give you the correct answer before you move ahead.
And there�s the Classic Quiz where you see how you did at the end.
Both of these can be emailed to the instructor or printed out at home.
Now that you�ve got to see a little big about BrainPop �
I hope that you will investigate many of the topics they have to advance your learning. Thank you.