A Journey in "Flipping"
Join one (not so Tech savvy) teacher in her quest to 'Flip' her classroom.
Flip Session 1.
Step 1. PLAN
I had to teach the theory behind the bonding of atoms and the formation of compounds, which is a topic students often struggle with, so I decided to try flipping this content. I've taught this for many years so I didn't need long to plan my 10 minute video.
Step 2 & 3. Decide on TECHNOLOGY & RECORD
I decided to video myself teaching this content just as I would teach it in the classroom - with a whiteboard and markers. I just filmed it as an imovie on my ipad. This did turn out to be too time consuming at all!
Step 4. SHARE
I decided it would be easy to share the video with my students via the school website as we already have a class set up in Google drive to do this. I could have shared it far more easily on YouTube - but I wasn't ready for that!
Step 5. EVALUATE
Did the students learn more thoroughly than they would have if I had delivered the direct instruction during a classroom lesson? Yes, I think they did, BUT this was largely due to the in-class activity completed afterwards as I had time to check each students progress! (The worksheet below, Creating Compounds, was part of this activity). However, next time I will need to prepare a more structured worksheet that actually caters for different levels of mastery and pace of student learning (which will be evidence that Flipping my classroom really can cater for differentiated learning!). A segment of my 'wonderful' video is below.
Step 6. REFLECT
I'm not convinced with the quality of this video. The students did watch it as it was novel (and they wanted to see Mrs N in a video!?) Upon reflection, I have decided that I need to experiment with more professional methods of presenting information to the students. Also, uploading the video from my ipad was not an easy task so I will need to look into a more efficient way to share. I am going to explore Google+.
Join one (not so Tech savvy) teacher in her quest to 'Flip' her classroom.
Flip Session 1.
Step 1. PLAN
I had to teach the theory behind the bonding of atoms and the formation of compounds, which is a topic students often struggle with, so I decided to try flipping this content. I've taught this for many years so I didn't need long to plan my 10 minute video.
Step 2 & 3. Decide on TECHNOLOGY & RECORD
I decided to video myself teaching this content just as I would teach it in the classroom - with a whiteboard and markers. I just filmed it as an imovie on my ipad. This did turn out to be too time consuming at all!
Step 4. SHARE
I decided it would be easy to share the video with my students via the school website as we already have a class set up in Google drive to do this. I could have shared it far more easily on YouTube - but I wasn't ready for that!
Step 5. EVALUATE
Did the students learn more thoroughly than they would have if I had delivered the direct instruction during a classroom lesson? Yes, I think they did, BUT this was largely due to the in-class activity completed afterwards as I had time to check each students progress! (The worksheet below, Creating Compounds, was part of this activity). However, next time I will need to prepare a more structured worksheet that actually caters for different levels of mastery and pace of student learning (which will be evidence that Flipping my classroom really can cater for differentiated learning!). A segment of my 'wonderful' video is below.
Step 6. REFLECT
I'm not convinced with the quality of this video. The students did watch it as it was novel (and they wanted to see Mrs N in a video!?) Upon reflection, I have decided that I need to experiment with more professional methods of presenting information to the students. Also, uploading the video from my ipad was not an easy task so I will need to look into a more efficient way to share. I am going to explore Google+.
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Flip Session 2.
Step 1. PLAN
A recent unit in English was 'The Art of Persuasion'. After some thought, I decided that one of the most appropriate lessons in this unit to flip would be the skills lesson on 'Modality'.
Step 2 & 3. TECHNOLOGY & RECORD
I decided to try Screencast-O-Matic to record this lesson. WOW! - was this a fast and easy tool to use - and it produced a much more professional looking video than my first one! I just recorded myself speaking over a PowerPoint presentation that I had already created.
Step 4. SHARE
I was still not ready to launch myself on YouTube but it was a lot of work to save the last movie on the school network, so I shared it with the students via our Google+ class community page. The students just had to ask to join - a far simpler method!
Step 5 & 6. EVALUATE & REFLECT
This session worked much better as the video was shorter and gave the students a small homework activity to do at the end. We then shared our high modality sentences in class and spent some time having a bit a fun writing more sentences!!
Step 1. PLAN
A recent unit in English was 'The Art of Persuasion'. After some thought, I decided that one of the most appropriate lessons in this unit to flip would be the skills lesson on 'Modality'.
Step 2 & 3. TECHNOLOGY & RECORD
I decided to try Screencast-O-Matic to record this lesson. WOW! - was this a fast and easy tool to use - and it produced a much more professional looking video than my first one! I just recorded myself speaking over a PowerPoint presentation that I had already created.
Step 4. SHARE
I was still not ready to launch myself on YouTube but it was a lot of work to save the last movie on the school network, so I shared it with the students via our Google+ class community page. The students just had to ask to join - a far simpler method!
Step 5 & 6. EVALUATE & REFLECT
This session worked much better as the video was shorter and gave the students a small homework activity to do at the end. We then shared our high modality sentences in class and spent some time having a bit a fun writing more sentences!!
Subsequent Sessions.
I have decided that I will try to flip a few lessons each term, and experiment with more of the tools listed on our Tools & Resources page. This will build up my bank of digital resources and provide another way to present to my students, the information and skills I would normally teach through direct instruction. Flipped Learning now allows me to utilise contemporary online technology and tools to engage my digital natives. My next idea - how to nominalise verbs to sound like an expert when writing information texts, using a Google Form!
I have decided that I will try to flip a few lessons each term, and experiment with more of the tools listed on our Tools & Resources page. This will build up my bank of digital resources and provide another way to present to my students, the information and skills I would normally teach through direct instruction. Flipped Learning now allows me to utilise contemporary online technology and tools to engage my digital natives. My next idea - how to nominalise verbs to sound like an expert when writing information texts, using a Google Form!
Please share your journey into Flipped Learning with us. Click on this link to join our Flipping Teachers Google+ Community and share your journey on the "Journeys into Flipping" page.
Reference: Spencer. (2013) Flipped Learning Resources [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/runfardvs/8450019871/