Flipping Your ClassroomAnastasia Trekles, Ph.D.

Office of Learning Technology

What’s Flipped Learning All About?

When students receive key instruction at home, and work on tasks and application at school, you are “flipping” your classroom

Instruction can happen in many forms: videos, podcasts, websites, DVDs

In this way, students can work together on more meaningful projects and activities more in the classroom, while under your guidance

You can gain back valuable class time and learning opportunities through this method!

Advantages of Flipping The Classroom

Now the Bad news…

The same benefit for flipping instruction can also work in reverse when it comes to being there for your students while they work

When you are not there for instructional time, students may develop misconceptions about key ideas, and will not be able to instantly ask questions of you

Some students may not be motivated enough to participate in the instruction at home on their own

Others may not have the resources necessary at home to access what you need them to

Navigating the Pitfalls

Ensure that students can reach you outside of the face-to-face classroom through email, phone, or through BlackBoard discussions

Help students form study groups for better accountability and collaborative learning

Hold students responsible for their outside learning by grading participation and access – BlackBoard’s tracking and reporting can help

What About Students who Don’t have access at home?

Provide transcripts and/or lecture notes (this is essential for ADA accessibility!)

Provide downloads of videos or other learning materials on a thumb drive or CD/DVD

Recommend to students places to study on and off-campus, such as in an open computer lab, the cafeteria, or a local coffee shop

Use tools that allow for media to be accessed and/or downloaded onto mobile devices that students may very well have available to them, like smartphones and iPads

Flipping Your Class: The basicsA-Z of Flipping the Classroom:

1.Students need to understand the flip and the expectations

2.Provide textbooks for a reference

3.Provide overview of grading (e.g. most flipped classrooms use "Mastery Learning”)

4.Locate a place to post your videos (e.g. Katura, Screencast.com, YouTube)

5.Get Camtasia or Jing for your computer

6.Storyboard and transcript your lesson

7.Create videos which are no more than 15 minutes each (lengthy videos lose attention)

8.Create online assignments and assessments to accompany video

9.Provide meaningful classroom activities so that students are engaged during class time rather than doing homework without learning**This may sound time intensive, but REMEMBER! Once you have created these materials, you can upload and use them for years to come (of course, editing as needed)

http://www.21things4teachers.net/21--flipping-the-classroom.html

Jing

Free, but only limits your video to 5 minutes

No editing – one shot deal

Shows images and videos of what you see on your computer screen

Narrate Overview of Jing -

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

Camtasia

Capture what you are doing on the screen Step-by-step assignments Projects Lectures using PowerPoint, Prezi, or other visual aides

Editing enabled Published video can be viewed on multiple devices

Computer Tablet Smart Phones

Assess Understanding Develop quizzes inside of your video

Must purchase, but a 30-day free trial is offered Overview of Camtasia -

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

Getting Camtasia

Purdue has a university license for you to have Camtasia in your office and on your home machine (Mac and Windows)

Visit http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia/ to download the license request form and wait approximately 24-48 hours for response

You will be able to download from a secure Filelocker the Camtasia version of your choice, along with SnagIt – a great tool for capturing and editing still, single-frame screen captures

Getting Along with Jing and Camtasia

Great resource: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial.html

More help: Full Manual (300 pages):

http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf-camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Online_Help.pdf

Custom Media with SnagIt and Camtasia: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf-camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Library_Media.pdf

Tips for engaging screencasts: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf-camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Engaging_Screencasts.pdf

Publish It!

YouTube Screencast.com Kaltura in BlackBoard

See http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy

Thanks!

Staci: atrekles@pnc.edu Alex: acrisw00@pnc.edu Twitter: @PNCOLT http://pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs

Resources

Teachers Using Technology to Flip Classrooms: http://www.techsmith.com/flipped-classroom.html

Screen capture in the classroom ideas: http://prezi.com/a81jjsnnnjiu/using-screen-capture-tools-in-the-classroom/

10 Tools to Flip Your Class (tip: most are screen-capture related!): http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-tools-to-help-you-flip-your.html

Flipped classroom design: http://digitalsandbox.weebly.com/flipped-classroom-design.html

Flipped class best practices: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller

Flipped classroom in math: http://www.sophia.org/school-of-thought/the-flipped-classroom-wsqing-into-twirls--2