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The Flip – a complete picture

By Jac de Haan On April 25, 2012 · 6 Comments · In philosophy

This position piece was a response to a Learning & Leading prompt, submitted April 9, 2012:

While many teachers have been introduced to “the flip” via the video lessons of pioneers, video is just one example of an evolving flipped teaching sensibility. Flipping is the act of identifying rote or procedural elements of a lesson, shifting this repetitive content to a medium not bound by teacher availability, and empowering students to take an active role in their education.

Flipping is a natural compliment to a 21st century learning environment. The teacher moves through the roles of manager, coach, facilitator & mentor. Class time is spent exploring, discovering, succeeding and sometimes failing. Students work on project-based work and collaborate as appropriate to share information and successes. When a common vocabulary or foundational concept is required, the teacher (or students) can choose how to provide that information in a way that is archived for future reference.

Flipped instruction today is defined by a teacher’s willingness to help students learn how/when they see fit, release control of the classroom experience, and engage in a process of finding the best way to reach and respond to students individually. The appropriate medium to convey information [...]

iPad screencasting Apps comparison chart

By Jac de Haan On February 7, 2012 · 9 Comments · In resources

Screencasting iPad app & web interface combination: EduCreations

By Jac de Haan On December 14, 2011 · Add Comment · In tutorials

This post is an introduction and evaluation of EduCreations new iPad screencasting app. This is a companion post to the previous reviews, Screencasting Apps for the iPad (September 2011).

Comparison to the common features noted in the previous article

import a background image from the camera roll
choose pen colors for drawing
erase areas of the screen or the entire page
record voice along with what is happening on the screen
upload for online viewing

1. EduCreations Interactive Whiteboard (free | iTunes link)

Pros

Step forwards and backwards between edits.
Move freely between slides while narration continues.
Auto-pause the recording when attempting to add an image.
Undo button steps backwards through changes.
Dedicated image menu with image “lock” feature.
Companion online screencasting interface.
Online video sharing includes multiple levels of permissions.
Video embeddable within other websites.
Import and control multiple images per slide.

Cons

Videos lives within the App or the propitiatory website by default.
Embed feature requires FLASH (video won’t play on iPad or iPhone).
No pen tip width control.

Web interface recording test

Flipped Classroom: tracking student interaction with time-shifted material

By Jac de Haan On December 2, 2011 · 3 Comments · In resources, tutorials

*Update 12/10/11 – I’ve given up on using YouTube’s RSS feed due to the time lag. Now I just create a homework post that includes the video AND the response form. My blog RSS updates immediately and then MailChimp scrapes it to send home.

In my experimentation with a time-shifting flipped classroom model, I’ve been building videos for both students and teachers but have been searching for a way to automatically collect data on how much of my intended audience is using the material.

I’m happy with my mid-video interactive self-quizzes: In an attempt to test for comprehension while within content consumption-mode, I’ve been using YouTube annotations to create interactive quizzes and review markers that allow students to self-test for comprehension.

I’m happy with using a Google Form to check for comprehension post-video: Ramsey Musallam taught me to use a post-video survey to collect student responses with material, a quick question and answer check-in that asks students to regurgitate but then synthesize the information they’ve just reviewed.

I’m wasn’t yet happy with figuring out [...]

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Interactive flipped instruction with YouTube annotations and time-markers

By Jac de Haan On September 26, 2011 · 12 Comments · In resources, tutorials

Flipped instruction (the flipped classroom model, vodcasting, time-shifting) is an attractive concept because of the in-class time that is freed to work through concept application and discussion. One of the criticisms of this teaching tool is that students receive knowledge in a passive state – by watching video.

In an attempt to create a more interactive experience for students, YouTube annotations and time-markers can be used to create “check-ins” as the lesson progresses. Below is a simple proof of concept* using a review of fractions. There are an infinite amount of creative possibilities using these free tools, and they work when viewed at YouTube.com or when embedded into a class website.

How might you use these tools – feel free to comment below.

*This is just a proof of concept. Audio quality is low and audio/video channels get out of sync towards the end.
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Screencasting and flipped instruction: beyond math

By Jac de Haan On September 15, 2011 · Add Comment · In lesson plans, resources, tutorials

In response to recent articles on the concept of flipped instruction and iPad screencasting reviews, some educators have emailed or commented and asked how time-shifting lectures can be used beyond mathematics classes or math-based science classes.

Here are 10 quick examples of non-math flipped classroom ideas. The entire video clip was created using Explain Everything for the iPad.

Examples are provided for :

Language arts – sentence diagrams

Music instruction – reading a staff and ukelele tuning

Communications – user interface and graphic design elements

Web design – basic HTML5 structure

Visual art – vocabulary terms for photography

History – timelines and inventions

Health – the food plate replaces the food pyramid

Learning support – reading fluency support

Community service – coordinated neighborhood improvement

Foreign Language – drawing Mandarin Chinese characters

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Screencasting Apps for the iPad

By Jac de Haan On September 12, 2011 · 25 Comments · In resources

In this post, 4 screencasting apps for the iPad are reviewed: ReplayNote, Explain Everything, ScreenChomp, and ShowMe.

Background & Overview

Apple’s iPad is becoming a common fixture in over 600 districts across the US1, and teachers are connecting online to share ideas for effective implementations. As the barrier to access has been removed in these classrooms, many teachers are considering a blended teaching model or flipped classroom opportunities*.

Flipped instruction (flipped classrooms, vodcasting, time-shifted instruction) allows students to view or review a lecture when they are ready to, at their own pace. This requires teachers to record lectures either live or, more often than not, prior to delivery. To capture a lecture, educators like Ramsey Musallam and Stacey Roshan use software that records their voice along with the action happening on their screen in real-time.

Screencasting software for desktop/laptops is fully developed** – users can record screens while opening and closing [...]
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Time-shifting instruction: flipped classroom and teaching

By Jac de Haan On August 14, 2011 · 29 Comments · In philosophy, resources, tutorials

What is flipped instruction?

At its core, flipped teaching (also called flipped classroom, flipped instruction, vodcasting, educational video-on-demand) is a format for removing some of the lecture-based lessons from classrooms and giving students the ability to learn that content in their own time at their own pace. This is done through recording video-based lectures* [editor note: flipped philosophy has moved away from requiring video - see this article for more information. 4/25/2012] and posting them online for students to engage and respond to.

There are several advantages to this model of teaching.

Flipped teaching means that an educator doesn’t need to guess at what speed to deliver content – with students watching lectures at home they can move at their own speed and review concepts as necessary.

Without large portions of classroom time spent lecturing, educators can use that time to see students working through projects and assignments that would have previously been done in isolation at home: break out sessions can occur spontaneously, students can work in mentor-based groupings, jigsaw opportunities, supplemental support, etc.

Jon Bergmann, Jerry Overmyer and Brett Wilie outline some other benefits in somewhat of a flip [...]
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