Flipping Your Classroom Step-By-Step

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Shannon J. Holden, high school and middle school teacher, administrator, and new teacher coach

in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years.

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Flipping Your Classroom Step-By-Step

Presenter:Shannon J. Holden

www.newteacherhelp.com

Who Is Shannon Holden?• Taught H.S. Math and M.S. History for 8

years in Texas• Assistant Principal for 3 years in Texas at a

“9th Grade only” building• Assistant Principal for 11 years in Missouri• Adjunct Instructor at Lindenwood University

and Missouri State University• Online Instructor at The University of North

Dakota and The University of The Pacific

Overview of Today’s Session• Choosing a topic• Downloading software• Making videos• Making podcasts• Downloading videos to your computer• Editing your video• Creating accounts

Overview of Today’s Session

• Uploading your video to Vimeo• Uploading your podcast to Podbean• Embedding your video in a website or blog• Embedding your podcast in a website or

blog

Overview of Today’s Session

• What to do during class time• But I don’t want to make videos!• How Flipping can fail• Why Flip?• Free flipped resources• Flipping FAQ

Choosing a Topic

• Choose a topic that would be a good candidate for a “Flipped” lesson

• My recommendation: Something you can explain in 15 minutes or less

• Example: “Order of Operations”– PEMDAS

Downloading Software

• Download aTube Catcher• Do a Google search for “aTube Catcher

Official Site”• Go to the site, and follow the instructions

Why aTube Catcher?• It’s free!• You can do so many things with it

– Make screencasts– Make podcasts– Download videos to your computer– Convert videos to different formats– Burn videos to a DVD

• It is continually being improved and updated

Make a Video

• Double click on the aTube catcher icon on your desktop

• Plug in your USB microphone• Go to the “Screen Record” tab• Choose “Desktop” as the place for your video

to appear when you finish recording

Your aTube Catcher Dashboard

Make a Video• Choose “WMV” as the format for your video• Choose the area of your computer screen

you want to record• Hit “Start” to record• Hit “Stop” when you are finished• Name your video when the icon appears

Make a Podcast• Go to the “Audio Recorder” tab after

opening aTube Catcher• Plug in your USB microphone• Select “Desktop” as the place where you

want your podcast to appear when you are finished recording

Your aTube Catcher Dashboard

This Video Will Show You How!

• I show you how to make a podcast! • https://vimeo.com/43319977

Download a Video to Your Computer

• Why?• When you download a video to your

computer, you can use it whenever you want!• You don’t have to rely on your school’s

Internet connection• Embed the video in your website or blog

Your aTube Catcher Dashboard

This Video Will Show You How!

• https://vimeo.com/43948928

Edit Your Video (optional)• My two favorite video editors are:• Flipshare (comes with your Flip video

camera)• Yes, I am aware that Flip video cameras are

not being produced any more• Microsoft Movie Maker

Create Accounts• You should have already created accounts to

these websites:– Vimeo– Blogger– Podbean– Twitter– MightyBell– eduClipper

• If you haven’t, let me know!

This Video Will Show You How!

• I show you how to make a Blogger account• https://vimeo.com/43308993

• I show you how to make a Podbean account• https://vimeo.com/43309843

Upload a Video to Vimeo• Log in to your Vimeo account• Go to “My Videos”• Click “Upload a Video”• Browse your computer & select the video you

want to upload• Click “Upload”• Write your video’s title & description as you

wait for it to upload

This Video Will Show You How!

• https://vimeo.com/44008579

Upload a Podcast to Podbean

• Once you upload your podcasts to Podbean, students will be able to download them to their iPod or MP3 player

• They can listen to your lessons any time they want…as many times as they want!

This Video Will Show You How!

• https://vimeo.com/43310072

Embed Your Video• Go to Vimeo and select the video you want

to embed• Click the icon in the upper right-hand corner

of the video• Highlight the ENTIRE embed code, right-click

it, and hit “Copy”• “Paste” the embed code of your video in your

website, blog, wiki, ning, or MightyBell space

This Video Will Show You How!

• https://vimeo.com/44010404

Embed Your Podcast

• Go to Podbean• Log in to your account• Find which podcast you want to embed• Copy the URL• Paste the URL in your blog, website, Ning, or

MightyBell space

What Do You Do During Class?• Now that your students are receiving

instruction from you at home, what are you going to do with all the class time you have available?

• You should have more time for– Class discussions– Labs– Cooperative learning– Project-based learning

I Don’t Want To Make Videos!• https://vimeo.com/45110604 • Places to go to download videos so you don’t

have to make them yourself– Sophia– Khan Academy– YouTube EDU– TeacherTube– Brightstorm– Discovery Learning– Many more!

How Flipping Can Fail• Teachers have to have a desire to Flip• You cannot Flip every lesson!

– Start by Flipping one lesson per week– Soon you will build a library of effective Flipped

lessons• There has to be a “Plan B” for students

without Internet access• Believing that Flipping is the “Magic Bullet”

What’s So Great About Flipping?• Students view videos at home about the next

day’s lesson• Students come to class the next day knowing

what is going on• Valuable class time is used for student

questions, cooperative learning, project-based learning, class discussions

What’s so Great About Flipping?• Instead of students sitting at home trying to

do their homework, they do their work under the guidance of the teacher

• Teachers are excited about the possibilities• Students like watching the videos at home,

as they are generally shorter than a lesson given in class

• Students don’t like “traditional” lecture

What’s So Great About Flipping?• All of that cool technology your district

purchased will actually get USED!– SmartBoards– iPads– Laptops

• Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle have been dead for 2,400 years

• Let’s try something different!• It is 14 years into the 21st Century…let’s teach

using “21st Century Skills!”

What’s So Great About Flipping?• Have you worked hard to “differentiate”

instruction? Flipping makes it easy!• How do students transfer information from

short-term to long-term memory?– Repetition!

• Parents can participate in their child’s educational process!

Flipping Gurus• Go to YouTube and search for:

– Aaron Sams– Jonathan Bergmann– Katie Gimbar– Bill Nye has also jumped on the Flipping

bandwagon!

Other Flipping Resources• The “Flipped Teaching Network”• TedEd “Lessons Worth Sharing”

– http://ed.ted.com/lessons/introducing-ted-ed-lessons-worth-sharing

• This resource is so good, I will be doing an entire webinar about it (and Sophia) in March, 2013!

What the Naysayers Are Saying• “What if kids don’t watch the videos?”• “Many students don’t have access to the

Internet”• “Flipping just takes an inefficient lesson

delivery system (lecture) and transfers it to the home”

• “Flipping shifts the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student” (Yes?)

What If Kids Don’t Watch the Videos?• How do you react when kids don’t do their

homework in the traditional classroom?• One teacher suggests that kids who don’t

watch the videos complete worksheets or read the chapter while the rest of the class participates in a learning activity

• Some teachers are lucky and have one or more “student computers” where students can view the video to catch up

Many Students Don’t Have Access• Studies have shown that we have

overestimated the number of students who have no Internet access

• There are many students who do not have Internet access to do SCHOOLWORK!

• Amazingly, students find ways to access the Internet when they want to do something “enjoyable”

• Let’s come up with solutions for students who truly do not have access

How Teachers Are Adapting• Keep the school’s computer lab open before

school or after school• Record videos on DVD for students to take

home (aTube Catcher does this)• Save videos on a flash drive to send home

with students w/computer but no Internet• Students visit the public library or school

library

How Teachers Are Adapting• Play your video during the first few minutes of

class while taking roll and other housekeeping chores

• If you are recording yourself presenting a PowerPoint, give students a printout of the PPT

• Have students visit your room before school, during lunch, or after school if you have “student computers” in your room

More Flipping FAQ• Question #2: “What if my students aren’t

tech-savvy, and don’t know how to access all of the online resources I have made available?”

More Flipping FAQ• Classmates can help• Student can go to YouTube, and put

whatever action they want to do in the YouTube “search bar”

• Example: “Downloading podcasts from PodBean”

• Several instructional videos will appear

More Flipping FAQ• Question #3: “Doesn’t flipping take an

inefficient lesson delivery method (lecture) and transfer it to the home?”

More Flipping FAQ• Yes, lecture is inefficient

– Level 1 of DOK (Recall)– Lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Knowledge,

Comprehension)• You are using your VALUABLE class time for

activities that are at higher Depth of Knowledge levels and higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy– DOK Level 3 & 4– Bloom’s (Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation)

My Reward For You• I have written the Flipped Teaching Matrix

exclusively for my edWeb community!• Go to the “Document Library” and download

it for FREE!• Try it…you will LIKE it!