Flipped / Blended Lessons

If you "off-load" information transfer to homework or in-class stations, you can increase time for student interaction.

Want to make a screencast? Use Google free Chrome plugin Screencastify

Screencast using Mac QuickTime Player. You could also try a “slidecast” – record an audio narration as you deliver a slide presentation. Here’s how

Create and share slides

1. Export Powerpoint or Keynote slides to Slideshare – sample by former student Peter Gallagher. Peter’s extensive collection of Slideshares.
2. Here’s how to add an audio narration to a PowerPoint or a Keynote slide show.
3. Use Google slides – here’s an example of how to animate a math problem. Here’s a hack for adding a narration to Google slides.

Create and share videos

1. Add narration to PowerPoint or Keynote (#2 above) Then export as videos which can be shared as files or uploaded to YouTube.
2. Create a Paperslide video
3. Create an animation using Toontastic 3d. It’s fun and a free tool from Google that works on smartphones, tablets, and select Chromebooks. Other animation creation options with free intro levels are Plotagon or Powtoon.

Host video content (created by you or found online) in a lesson

Add your commentary / questions, monitor student responses.

1. Use EDPuzzle (includes library of lessons you can use)

– Works with YouTube, Vimeo.

– Has shortcuts to many popular videos series including: , Khan A, Numberphile, Crashcourse, National Geographic and more.

– Can be embedded.

– Sample Grade 3: Mathablanca

2. Use TEDed (includes library of lessons you can use)

– YouTube content only.

– Cannot be embedded.

– Sample: Who’s the Historian in Your Classroom

3. Use AdobeSpark Video to make more compelling videos. Use from scratch or add your screencast or slidecast

To simply share your YouTube or Vimeo videos without nuisances such as annotations and related videos use SafeShare.TV

A similar product, ViewPure allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content. Great for the classroom.

Slideshow Flipped / Blended Learning

The Flipped Classroom: Getting Started from Peter Pappas