Art Integration Into Content Area Through Video Casting

Mrs. Hoffman approached me last week to gain ideas of how to be in more than one place at a time.  As she  explained content area teachers want to incorporate art concepts with students and really needed her help in discussing how to draw cartoon characters.

Our solution was to use her IPEVO camera as her video device while using Screencast-o-matic to record her actions and voice. She placed her recorded video clip in Windows Movie Maker and added a text graphic. We then posted it to her YouTube channel by uploading it which serves as the vehicle to host and access the video.

Using this process, Mrs. Hoffman can be in multiple classrooms while she is still teaching her own art content.  Hear her reaction and see her production!

Open Thank You Letter To Innovative Educators

Dear Members of the "Developing a 21st Century Flipped Classroom",

Yesterday, we concluded our time together as of 3:00 PM.  On Day Two we...

• Designed Our First Lesson
• Read and Reflected On Great Resources By Other Educators
• Were Motivated and Reflected On Our Learning Experience

Since then, I have been thinking about how blessed I was to be with a group of educators who were so willing to "think differently".  Many of you said before we started the class that you had a limited idea of what a flipped classroom meant.  This conjures up many different emotions...

• Fear Of The Unknown
• Uncertainty of Outcomes
• What Will I Need To Do

Let me just say that ALL of you attacked these fears with a tremendous about of courage, dedication, and willingness to think differently!  

I am so proud of your eagerness to learn the background information of a Flipped Classroom, discover the power of Twitter and how connected you can be to other #Flipclass educators, be open to learning new tools that can be used at the right time to engage, empower, and educate our students all the time, and to adopt the tools that best fit your needs and your idea of how you can "best use face to face time with your students".  Top that off with reflecting on blog posts and articles by other educators and creating valuable lessons that can be implemented "right now" with your students and you have a full two days.

Jim Valvano, former North Carolina State basketball coach was battling cancer when he stated, 

"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special. 

I felt we did that!  For us and for our students!  We worked extremely hard, encouraged one another, and were rock stars!  Don't let anyone tell you 

• that you are not worth your paycheck 
• that because of a flipped classroom, you won't have to work as hard
• that "you teachers who flip just make students watch videos"

Be innovators, encouragers, facilitators, and rock stars for your students and their educational future.  Do what you can, with what you have, where you are at!

Thank you again for making my two days with you an inspiration and truly a great experience!

Clay

Flipped Classroom Learning Experience Day 1

I was blessed today to spend hours with seventeen teachers who want to get better!  Our motivation for getting better was the opportunity to learn about the flipped classroom.  I incorporated and modeled many tools that teachers can use as I thought modeling would be a great method for introducing and learning philosophies, methods of, and tools to produce exemplary flip classed environments.  Below are the complete presentations and resources that go with them that were used today!

History Of Flip Classroom

• Provided a great beginning to what a flip class started out as and where it is going.
• Introduced todaysmeet.com as a viable tool for communicating with students
• Slide six was an Evernote that was created with Clearly Chrome Extension app
• Slide eight provided a two minute video of the founders
• Slide nine provided four minutes of multiple examples of Flipped Class content

Addressing A Need In Your Classroom & Possible Solutions

• Incorporated iTunesU Flip 101 to introduce three types of a Flipped Classroom
• Traditional Flip
• In-class supplement
• Challenged Based Learning
• Introduced Flipgrid.com as a viable way to gather video assessment or reflection

Names Of People Who Are Using Flipped Education

• Thankful for so many people willing to share their knowledge and their questions
• #FlipClass twitter stream was introduced
• Flippedlearning.org learning community introduced
• Used Google Forms to acquire reflection on articles that participants found interesting
• Also used music during the reflection time...once three songs played, reflection time concluded

Tools Teachers Can't Live Without

• Created "Turn In Folder" for participants...participants were the students
• Google Drive became a clear cut favorite as a work flow solution
• Provided numerous free and paid canvas creating tools
• Provided numerous free and paid screen recording options
• Additional iPad app resources were introduced and demonstrated
• Video hosting tools were introduced and explained
• Participants used the "Turn In Folder"to provide reflection on resources
• Provided four (4) options for FREE Cloud storage of videos

Questions You Won't Ask In Person

• Utilized Google Forms for students to ask questions; questions and answers will start Day 2
• Homework
• Bring content from participant's class to start planning a lesson
• Participate in the #Flipclass chat on Monday night from 7-8 Central
• Reflect on the #Flipclass chat using Google Document & the "Turn It In Folder" 

VideoNot.es For Syncing Google Notes With Video

Prior to show the technology tool, I used the whiteboard for low tech description!

Video Notes: Streamline Online Research
Video Notes: Simple way to make, store, and share notes of online videos
Video Notes: Great tool for taking notes

VINE IT: https://t.co/jBBvAzySxj

YouTube Capture and iPhone Set Up

Innovative.

Doing Whatever It Takes.

Duct Tape.

Bamboo Connect Pen

Mrs. Heck is creating some mathematics videos for a student who is unable to attend school at this time.  Using SMART notebook, Bamboo Connect Pen, SMART notebook video recorder, YouTube, and her blog the student has a personal tutor that understands the content.

Partially Flipped

In having the iPads I have noticed that an important time to use the flipped classroom concept is on the day of the test.

Students always finish at different times.  In the past I have had students sit and waste educational time after they have completed the assessment.

A new practice of mine is to create a short video cast of the next lesson which students need to create on their own prior to the next class period.  This has allowed me to use the assessment day to be both a day to assess, but also a day to discover new concepts.

I create a blog post listing items as can be found here.  When students are done with the assessment, they simply transition to headphones and their iPad to discover the new concept.

The video cast is below...


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