Flipping Your Classroom
Blending instruction, creative tutorials, and homework in class!
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could record our teaching and post them for students to watch? Have you ever thought about what students do when they get home and have a question? Where can they get help? Do you have a problem with students who don't complete their homework? The move to blended instruction, or the use of both online and face to face instruction, is transforming education. Blending instruction, or flipping your classroom, involves integrating technology. By creating online tutorials of your instruction using some of these cool tools, you can spend valuable class time assisting students with their homework so you are available for questions! Learn how screen-casting tools can change the way you teach.
Alan November has a page at November Learning which is focused on Screencasting in the classroom. He also has posted a great pdf guide to help teachers through the process of screencasting.
Alan November has a page at November Learning which is focused on Screencasting in the classroom. He also has posted a great pdf guide to help teachers through the process of screencasting.
Pre-Assess your skills for this "Thing"
Before beginning this "Thing", complete the Pre-Assessment of your technology proficiency.
The Flipped Classroom
Check out this Flipped Classroom wiki to get an overview of how the "Flipped Classroom" model is being adopted by school districts such as Woodland Park High School in Colorado. The TED talk gives the history of the idea; skim through it when you have time. The short "Flipped Classroom" video and the Slide Share presentation will give you a feel for a Flipped Classroom model. There are many additional resources on the page you can explore as well and perhaps bookmark in your delicious or diigo site.
Jing
Are there times you wish you could capture your computer screen to show others how to do something or provide more personalized feedback? “Show me” videos can be extremely helpful for learners, especially in this age of digital medium. You can capture your screen, capture a photo of something you want to annotate, or create a video of the steps your students need to follow easily with free software and make it available for them to see online. The maximum length of video you can make with this FREE program is 5 minutes. Jing does require that you download the software. The next one we will showcase does not require any download.
Screencast-o-matic
The Screencast-o-Matic program is totally web-based, and easy to use. It works with both PC and Mac computers. It was used to record the screen for the Presentation Tools demonstration. You can watch this tutorial on how to create a screencast. This link give you additional demo and how-to videos.
Beginning to Flip/Enhance Your Classroom with Screencasting
This is a presentation given by Carolyn McCarthy at the October 2011 Teaching and Learning in the Cloud conference in Michigan.
Click on the image on the left to download or open the pdf version.
Aligned to NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b,1.c, 1.d, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 2.d 3.a, 3.c, 4.b
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Objectives and Feedback; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representations
21 Things Hands-On Activity and Assignment
1. Before beginning this "Thing", complete the Pre-Assessment of your technology proficiency.
2. Review the Flipped Classroom wiki, and reflect on the elements of a Flipped Classroom that you could incorporate in your classroom.
3. Decide on a quick lesson (remember 5 minute limit) which you will record from your computer screen. This might be something in your content area which they have trouble remembering how to do, steps in a math problem, how to do something with an application such as Word, how to use the web to create citations. Use something you found on Thinkfinity, or in Interactive sites. You want to create something that will be a useful tutorial for your classroom or setting. Record it in Jing or Screencast-o-matic.
4. Send the link, or show your screencast to a peer or student to get some feedback. Reflect on the strengths or weaknesses of your screencast, and strategize how you can improve your next recording. Include the web address/URL of your posted recording.
5. Optional: Post your video to your Face of the Classroom site.
6. After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing".
2. Review the Flipped Classroom wiki, and reflect on the elements of a Flipped Classroom that you could incorporate in your classroom.
3. Decide on a quick lesson (remember 5 minute limit) which you will record from your computer screen. This might be something in your content area which they have trouble remembering how to do, steps in a math problem, how to do something with an application such as Word, how to use the web to create citations. Use something you found on Thinkfinity, or in Interactive sites. You want to create something that will be a useful tutorial for your classroom or setting. Record it in Jing or Screencast-o-matic.
4. Send the link, or show your screencast to a peer or student to get some feedback. Reflect on the strengths or weaknesses of your screencast, and strategize how you can improve your next recording. Include the web address/URL of your posted recording.
5. Optional: Post your video to your Face of the Classroom site.
6. After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing".
Post-Assess your skills for this "Thing"
After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Self Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing". (This is part of your hands-on activity/assignment).
Additional Resources
Flip Resources:
1. The Flipped Classroom Network: www.flippedclassroom.org
2. The Flipped High School: http://flippedhighschool.com/
3. Vodcasting and the Flipped Classroom: http://www.flippedclassroom.com/
4. Flipped Teaching: http://www.flipteaching.com/
FREE:
1. screenr - records your screen and tweet it out. Records audio and provides an embed code for your web page.
2. Here are some tips from TechSmith (creators of Jing) on how to do a good screencast. You will find some useful ideas here no matter which software option you choose.
COST:
1. Camtasia Studio (PC & Mac) A full suite of professional tools that records your screen, turns PowerPoint into video, use call outs, transitions, hotspots, quizzing features, titles, picture-in-picture (and produced by the same company TechSmith that created and provides Jing).
2. ScreenFlow (Mac only) Publish directly to YouTube, has a range of 2D and 3D transitions, sudio ducking and audio detach, callouts, picture-in-picture, and output to Flash.
Screenshots:
Also, check out Take-A-Screenshot.
1. screenr - records your screen and tweet it out. Records audio and provides an embed code for your web page.
2. Here are some tips from TechSmith (creators of Jing) on how to do a good screencast. You will find some useful ideas here no matter which software option you choose.
COST:
1. Camtasia Studio (PC & Mac) A full suite of professional tools that records your screen, turns PowerPoint into video, use call outs, transitions, hotspots, quizzing features, titles, picture-in-picture (and produced by the same company TechSmith that created and provides Jing).
2. ScreenFlow (Mac only) Publish directly to YouTube, has a range of 2D and 3D transitions, sudio ducking and audio detach, callouts, picture-in-picture, and output to Flash.
Screenshots:
Also, check out Take-A-Screenshot.
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