Flip or partially flip your classroom!
Do you ever wonder if students have checked out during your presentation of notes? If so, you might try recording your lesson and presenting it as you walk around the class. There are several benefits to doing this.
1. You can monitor your students to see if they are actually taking notes or just need assistance in doing so.
2. You can pause the lesson at anytime to ask questions, quiz them or just check for understanding.
3. You can then post the lesson link to your staff profile for your students to view at anytime which will help students who are absent keep up with lessons.
4. If you record your lesson, you will be forced to stay on the same track time-wise for all classes.
5. If you have your lessons recorded, you can pull them out to use (or edit) for the next year!
6. Your students will think you are tech-savvy in this ever-changing digital age!
So, now that I have gotten you excited about recording your lessons, let me share how to create one. It is very easy once you get through it one time.
Here are the steps:
1. First you will need either an iPad, iPhone or some sort of tablet or device that can also take pictures. You can use your laptop, but you will need to take pictures of whatever you want on your presentation and then email them to yourself.
2. Download the app "Educreations" (iPad, Android tablet or laptop) or go tohttp://www.educreations.com/ OR "ShowMe" (iPads only) at http://www.showme.com/ and create an account.
3. Click on "create a new lesson" and get started! You can take pictures of textbook pages to annotate, essays to revise, draw your own math problems or save your power point presentations as images and upload them as pictures.
4. After you upload all images, get an idea of what you want to say or draw and then start recording.
5. Email the lesson to yourself so it can be easy to find.
6. Copy and paste the link to your staff profile for your classes to view or review!
Hint: The first time I recorded, I redid the lesson twice because I didn't like the way I sounded and because the lesson was too long. After I got the hang of using this tool, I was recording lessons in 15 minutes time!
Check out these great sources for more information about the flipped classroom:
http://www.toddnesloney.com/#!flipped-classroom/cvxa
and
https://sites.google.com/site/physicsflippedclassroom/
1. You can monitor your students to see if they are actually taking notes or just need assistance in doing so.
2. You can pause the lesson at anytime to ask questions, quiz them or just check for understanding.
3. You can then post the lesson link to your staff profile for your students to view at anytime which will help students who are absent keep up with lessons.
4. If you record your lesson, you will be forced to stay on the same track time-wise for all classes.
5. If you have your lessons recorded, you can pull them out to use (or edit) for the next year!
6. Your students will think you are tech-savvy in this ever-changing digital age!
So, now that I have gotten you excited about recording your lessons, let me share how to create one. It is very easy once you get through it one time.
Here are the steps:
1. First you will need either an iPad, iPhone or some sort of tablet or device that can also take pictures. You can use your laptop, but you will need to take pictures of whatever you want on your presentation and then email them to yourself.
2. Download the app "Educreations" (iPad, Android tablet or laptop) or go tohttp://www.educreations.com/ OR "ShowMe" (iPads only) at http://www.showme.com/ and create an account.
3. Click on "create a new lesson" and get started! You can take pictures of textbook pages to annotate, essays to revise, draw your own math problems or save your power point presentations as images and upload them as pictures.
4. After you upload all images, get an idea of what you want to say or draw and then start recording.
5. Email the lesson to yourself so it can be easy to find.
6. Copy and paste the link to your staff profile for your classes to view or review!
Hint: The first time I recorded, I redid the lesson twice because I didn't like the way I sounded and because the lesson was too long. After I got the hang of using this tool, I was recording lessons in 15 minutes time!
Check out these great sources for more information about the flipped classroom:
http://www.toddnesloney.com/#!flipped-classroom/cvxa
and
https://sites.google.com/site/physicsflippedclassroom/
