PLTL Winter Institute
Creating a Flipped Classroom for PLTL
January 5-6, 2015
at the City College of New York
Research shows that students who participate in Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) improve their engagement and performance in STEM. However, the biggest barrier to PLTL has been to find the time to schedule workshops. Now we can enhance PLTL with easy to use technology by creating a flipped classroom that creates more time for peer-led workshops. Join us in a collaborative venture to reinvent the Chemistry classroom with easy to create animated lessons using PowToon integrated with online quizzes using the ClassMarker platform.
Topics
Introduction to PLTL
A Flipped Course for PLTL
Creating PowToon Animated Lessons
Ideas for Teaching Chemistry: Entropy & the new duodectet rule for Transition Metals
Creating Online Quizzes with ClassMarker
Forming a Collaborative online Chemistry Community
Sample Animated Lesson
Student Comments
I think the animation … really helped me learn the steps of uranium alpha and beta decay.
The video was very helpful in explaining step by step.
I feel that the video Nuclear Chemistry was very informative, easy to understand, but short. By the end of the video I wanted to know more so that I could understand nuclear decay and half lives.
I liked the fact that it was short, concise, yet so full of information. It honestly helped me sum up everything we have learned.
The video was very helpful to me because it provided the material in a simple way that was easy to understand. It is very convenient to be able to pause and rewind the video in order to better understand. I appreciate that the video is short, making it easier to remember than a long lecture.
I found it quite helpful because I was able to rewind it several times to be sure I understand the material. It was also somehow entertaining to see it in this format.
The video is very helpful, even though it isn’t very long. It contains a lot of information in a short and concise time span. Taking notes in a lecture hall is tougher … the notes from the video are much more precise then lecture.
I believed the video was super helpful. I allowed me to study at home and have instantaneous explanations.
The video is very educational. I learned about a female nuclear physicist who did not receive credit for her work.
The video is very helpful to better understand the material at my own pace.