ETC 2012- Flipped Classroom

Note about Youtube- Youtube will give you 10 or 15 minutes initially per video. Once they see you are doing a number of videos, they will give you more time for each video.

Getting started with your own screencasts

1. Computer/writing pad setup for a Mac (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qySegNxtiNg#!

2. Chris Raymaakers for Mac with Wacom and Activinspire software. Chris shows a set up for his Middle School Math class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7YDFpUtIVU

3. How to Make Khan Style Videos.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/khan-academy-style-videos/19875/

4. Ipad and ScreenChomp (This would be great for student videos, but I am not sure for teacher videos...yet!)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8

http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/08/20/screencasting-apps-for-the-ipad/

You can use your PC tablet, computer with Wacom peripheral board, Smartboard, Promethean Board or visualizer (document camera) to screen-cast your lesson.

Screencasters

1. Screencast-o-matic- (Mac or PC) easy to use- free version has 15 minute max, Pro is inexpensive (US$12 per year) and more useful. Web Based.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

Tutorial video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4rk5ACdGk4

2. Camtasia-(Mac or PC) US$299.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

3. Jing- easy but short time- 5 minute max

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.htm

4. Screenflow (Mac) (US$100)

http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/examples.htm#3

There are many others; screenr, quicktime, ...

Videos of the Flipped classroom

1. SAS student newspaper interview of Tim Zitur and his students about his classroom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O1i4vc0uxFM or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1i4vc0uxFM

2. Aaron Sams- One of the Flipped Classroom pioneers from Colorado talks about how his class works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2H4RkudFzlc

3. Harvard Physics Professor Eric Mazur about Questioning/Polling/Discussing in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg

Survey Results

1. Oct/Nov 2011 and March 20th 2012. Student survey results of Tim Zitur's AP Calculus students.

File link is near the bottom of the page.

2. Crystal Kirch is doing a survey of teachers who are flipping. She also has a link to many teachers from different disciplines and their twitter feeds, blogs or web pages.

http://flippedclassroomdata.blogspot.com/

Websites devoted to the flipped classroom

1. The Flipped Classroom as motivated by Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann.

http://mast.unco.edu/programs/vodcasting/

2. Flipped Classroom Network- resources for teachers of different disciplines.

http://vodcasting.ning.com/

3. Flipped Classroom Manifesto

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-manifest-823.php

4. The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture. An excellent jumping off place offering big picture ideas about flipping. http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/

5. Ted tv- Ted support for videos and good teacher content

http://ed.ted.com/

In class monitoring

1. ALEKS math assistant- software that monitors student progress and links with certain texts

http://www.aleks.com/video/quick_tour

2. Webassign- online homework tied to certain textbooks. Very easy to use.

http://www.webassign.com/

3. WeBWork- free college based platform. Somewhat clunky to use and set up, but you can find problems through their library, which can be challenging.

http://webwork.maa.org/

4. QuestionPress- make and share your polls. Polls can be asynchronous or synchronous.

http://www.questionpress.com/presenter/new_session

5. Polleverywhere- Online polling- use a text (sms) or a computer for users to respond.

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

6. Socrative -make your own polls. Free.

http://socrative.com/

7. Google forms

Examples of Math Teachers who have Flipped

1. Tim Zitur (tzitur) HS Math AP Calculus and some Pre-Calculus

2. Brad Robb (RobbWorld) HS Math http://wowmath.org/Calculus/CalculusNotes.html

3. Joe Lingle (my former colleague) HS IB Math https://sites.google.com/site/linglemath/flipped-classrooms

4. Chris Raymaakers (my colleague) 7th Grade Math http://www.youtube.com/user/raymaakers?ob=0

many, many other places.

Hardware solutions for inking

1. Lenovo tablet PCs http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=329576204C9E42289967E79E0E7C9A2D&menu-id=products&ref-id=products

2. Wacom boards - Peripheral boards that hook into a PC or Mac.

http://www.wacom.asia/

3. Smartboard or Promethean Board

4. Visualizers (document camera)

http://www.wolfvision.com/visualizer/index.php/en

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/379138114-digital-visualizer-for-education-classroom-VGA-output-wholesalers.html

5. Ipad and ScreenChomp

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8

http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/08/20/screencasting-apps-for-the-ipad/