Site Name: BrainPop
Type of Resource
An educational resource directed at schools to use with their students. There are activities, games, quizzes all presented in a flashy entertaining way that keeps all parties interested and involved.
Description
BrainPop has animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. (About Us) It is designed to be a supplemental curriculum for students. It is a very interactive and entertaining way for students to fill in gaps or cover a topic for the first time. There is also a BrainPop Jr, BrainPop ESL, BrainPop Espanol, and BrainPop Educators.
Uses
The educators site has free lesson plans, trainings, and other resources. BrainPop Jr. is directed at K-3 students and has the usual subjects presented in a kid friendly way. BrainPop Espanol is the main site but in Spanish. BrainPop ESL is an English language learners website, (ESL can be translated in a variety of languages.)
The main BrainPop focuses on learning Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Engineering, Health, and Arts & Music. Subscriptions are available for schools, districts, media labs, classrooms, libraries, homeschooling, families, and virtual schools. A yearly family plan would cost $99.
Usefulness
If your school or district has subscribed to this (which mine has) this is a great resource to allow students to have fun working on subjects at home in a variety of ways. You can monitor your students and use it as a supplemental curriculum or as a way to introduce a brand new topic. K-12 topics are covered between BrainPop Jr and the main site.
Quality
A very high quality website. Everything is put together very well and for an educational game resource, it is top notch. It costs a hefty subscription fee and in turn puts a lot of quality content for the price. A very trustworthy site that has won a variety of awards (Reputation)
Authorship
FWD Media, Inc and affiliates.
Point of View or Bias
None
Referral to Other Sources
To other BrainPop websites.
Currency
Updated regularly.
Alexa
Traffic Rank is 38,123 in the World
2,381 Sites Link into BrainPop.
In the last 3 months there has been a -8% change in visitors visiting BrainPop.
The load time for BrainPop is .828 seconds which is an fast speed.
Relative to the general internet population edutopia is most popular with 35-54 year old Females with children at home.
Etre
There are 43 total problems. 42 should fix, and 1 may fix.
Some of the problems are that the text input fields don't have a default value,
the absolute font sizes are used, and the xkeyword form element doesn't' feature a label.
WAVE
There are 4 accessibility errors. The errors are from a linked image missing alternative text and form labels missing.
There are also some missing structure and invisible content.
Website Grader
BrainPop has a grade of a 93/100
There are 12,000 indexed pages.
There is no BrainPop blog.
On the 10 point MOZ scale of link authority and popularity BrainPop has a 6.3
There are 7,498 linking domains.
Tweet Grader
Rank is 106,559 out of over 9 million.
BrainPop has 4,306 followers
BrainPop's animated, curriculum-based content supports educators and engages students around the world.
We are web-delivered and aligned to academic standards.
New York, New York.
Google Page Rank
6/10
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Alexa Internet - Website Information. (n.d.). Alexa the Web Information Company. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo
Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank instantly. (n.d.). Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. (n.d.). Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://tweet.grader.com/
WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. (n.d.). WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://wave.webaim.org/
Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. (n.d.). Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://websitegrader.com/
Type of Resource
An educational resource directed at schools to use with their students. There are activities, games, quizzes all presented in a flashy entertaining way that keeps all parties interested and involved.
Description
BrainPop has animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. (About Us) It is designed to be a supplemental curriculum for students. It is a very interactive and entertaining way for students to fill in gaps or cover a topic for the first time. There is also a BrainPop Jr, BrainPop ESL, BrainPop Espanol, and BrainPop Educators.
Uses
The educators site has free lesson plans, trainings, and other resources. BrainPop Jr. is directed at K-3 students and has the usual subjects presented in a kid friendly way. BrainPop Espanol is the main site but in Spanish. BrainPop ESL is an English language learners website, (ESL can be translated in a variety of languages.)
The main BrainPop focuses on learning Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Engineering, Health, and Arts & Music. Subscriptions are available for schools, districts, media labs, classrooms, libraries, homeschooling, families, and virtual schools. A yearly family plan would cost $99.
Usefulness
If your school or district has subscribed to this (which mine has) this is a great resource to allow students to have fun working on subjects at home in a variety of ways. You can monitor your students and use it as a supplemental curriculum or as a way to introduce a brand new topic. K-12 topics are covered between BrainPop Jr and the main site.
Quality
A very high quality website. Everything is put together very well and for an educational game resource, it is top notch. It costs a hefty subscription fee and in turn puts a lot of quality content for the price. A very trustworthy site that has won a variety of awards (Reputation)
Authorship
FWD Media, Inc and affiliates.
Point of View or Bias
None
Referral to Other Sources
To other BrainPop websites.
Currency
Updated regularly.
Alexa
Traffic Rank is 38,123 in the World
2,381 Sites Link into BrainPop.
In the last 3 months there has been a -8% change in visitors visiting BrainPop.
The load time for BrainPop is .828 seconds which is an fast speed.
Relative to the general internet population edutopia is most popular with 35-54 year old Females with children at home.
Etre
There are 43 total problems. 42 should fix, and 1 may fix.
Some of the problems are that the text input fields don't have a default value,
the absolute font sizes are used, and the xkeyword form element doesn't' feature a label.
WAVE
There are 4 accessibility errors. The errors are from a linked image missing alternative text and form labels missing.
There are also some missing structure and invisible content.
Website Grader
BrainPop has a grade of a 93/100
There are 12,000 indexed pages.
There is no BrainPop blog.
On the 10 point MOZ scale of link authority and popularity BrainPop has a 6.3
There are 7,498 linking domains.
Tweet Grader
Rank is 106,559 out of over 9 million.
BrainPop has 4,306 followers
BrainPop's animated, curriculum-based content supports educators and engages students around the world.
We are web-delivered and aligned to academic standards.
New York, New York.
Google Page Rank
6/10
References:Accessibility Check - Etre. (n.d.). Etre - Get Results.. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.etre.com/tools/accessibilitycheck/
Alexa Internet - Website Information. (n.d.). Alexa the Web Information Company. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo
Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank instantly. (n.d.). Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. (n.d.). Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://tweet.grader.com/
WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. (n.d.). WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://wave.webaim.org/
Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. (n.d.). Website SEO Tool | Website Grader. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://websitegrader.com/
