From Chapter 3: Why You Should Flip Your Classroom
Flipping speaks the language of today's students
Flipping helps busy students
Flipping helps struggling students
Flipping helps students of all abilities to excel
Flipping allows students to pause and rewind their teacher
Flipping increases student–teacher interaction
Flipping allows teachers to know their students better
Flipping allows for real differentiation
Flipping increases student–student interaction
Flipping changes classroom management
Flipping educates parents
Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your students' Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. (iPad app only)
YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others.
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer.
Google Classroom is the one stop shop for creating and managing online classes, distributing assignments, communicating with your students, and keeping everything organized.
EDpuzzle lets users create their own video in a safe environment and is ideal for project based learning (PBL) as well as flipping a classroom. Also, it allows educators to create videos for guided learning and allows them to assess students by adding questions. Finally, it can be used by any educator to integrate into any curriculum or subject.
Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen and webcam recorder to capture video from your computer screen and share it on Screencast-O-Matic.com, YouTube, or save to a video file. Upgrade to Pro Features and get much more.
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on.
Screencastify is a free Chrome extension that allows students to create simple screencasts. It's integrated with Google Drive, so whatever students create online can be recorded, explained, stored in their Drive, and submitted with a link. (web-based)
Google Sites is a website development tool that teachers can use for the purpose of communicating with both parents and students. Sites can also be used as a space to prepare and deliver the content used in classrooms.
Using Quizlet is an effective way to get your students further engaged in what they're learning both in the classroom and at home. The site offers six different study modes that appeal to all types of learners, allowing students to use what works best for them and go at their own pace. As a teacher you can easily create Quizlet classes to share study material with your students quickly and track their progress. And with our team-based game, Quizlet Live, it's easy to get your whole class involved, learning the material and how to work together in the process.