A CLOUD FOR FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

A “Cloud” for Flipped ClassroomsNCCE 3/1/13Pamela Livingston

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Introduction

Pamela Livingston• 1-to-1 book• Adjunct Professor K-12 teacher grad school• Tech director, teacher @ public, private, charter• Sr. Product Mgr @ Schoolwires

Schoolwires• Web solutions for K-12 school districts• Communities• Centricity2• Nimbus

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About Today

• Collective expertise – let’s tap!

• Flipped/Blended Learning overview

• The Cloud for Flipped/Blended Learning

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Who Are We – What do We Want?

• Administrators?• Teachers?• Other educator/company?

• Current blended/flipped learning?• Investigating blended/flipped learning?• Planning blended/flipped learning?

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What is a “Flipped Classroom?”

Any other definitions to offer?

Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

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What a Flipped Classroom Model Does

Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

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Two Key Factors Driving Adoption of Flipped Classrooms

What are your possible reasons?Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

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Two Key Factors Driving Adoption of Flipped Classrooms

What “collateral” do you have?What means of creating recordings, video exist?

Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

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Let’s hear from some teachers

MarkBurkeJerryChristy.mp4

Anything to share?

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Implementing blended learning

• Often disparate Web 2.0 products• Incumbent on teacher to integrate products• Students need logins, passwords to many products• Login fatigue

• Fractured student experience – remembering, adapting

Your experience?

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A solution for the cloud

• A flipped classroom community• Nimbus demo

Questions?

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Schoolwires Technology Supports Flipped Learning

Centricity2 and Nimbus support all aspects of the flipped classroom, from multimedia lectures and materials to in-class collaboration and assessment tools — including forms, surveys and polls.

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How Centricity2 Supports Lecture Content

Centricity2 – Teacher Pages• Videos• Podcasts• Article library• Wiki• Threaded commenting• Website links• Photo galleries• Assignments• Forms and surveys

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How Nimbus Supports Lecture Content

Nimbus – Groups = Classrooms• Work area – files (articles, PPT, Word, Excel)• Blogs – videos and podcasts, website links• Albums• Assignments• Discussions• Real time text collaboration (shared documents)• Chat

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Examples of Nimbus Features

Share documents in the Work Area

Present ideas and understanding in the Blog

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Examples of Nimbus Features

Share student work through Albums

Assign homework in Assignments

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How Does Centricity2 Support Flipped Learning?

• Teacher pages• Blogs, Wikis, threaded commenting, rating• Users and groups• Forms, surveys, tests, quizzes• Assignments• Files and folders• Accessible online 24x7• Watch videos, listen to podcasts• Single sign-onto Nimbus

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How Does Nimbus Support Flipped Learning?

• Workspaces• Discussion board, wall posts, blogs, online chat,

messages• Real time text collaboration (shared documents)• Members, groups, project teams• Polls• Assignments• Accessible online 24x7• Single sign-on from Centricity2

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Benefits to Districts and Community

• District benefits from unified platformo Increases efficiency and security

• IT benefits from bandwidth and storage for all teacher-created content and materials

• Teachers benefit from individual pages that are easy to maintain and updateo Saves teachers timeo Eliminates fractured user experiences

• Students and parents stay caught upo Students collaboratively work with peerso Avoid frustration at home

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Schoolwires Supports Flipped Learning

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used in Schoolwires and the Website are the trademarks, service marks, trade dress and logos of their respective owners.

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For more information on Schoolwires and Flipped Learning, visit our website:

http://www.schoolwires.com/flipped

To listen to a Webinar from authors of the Flipped Learning book visit here:

http://vimeo.com/51684722

To contact me: pamela.livingston@schoolwires.comhttp://www.twitter.com/plivings

For additional information, please contactSales@schoolwires.com

For a simple Nimbus account – respond on WikiQ & A?