Eflipping - flipping the flipping classroom
Digital Abyss
Still thinking about a new Blog title.......... However in my quest for a new title, I have been eFlipping through the top 100 educational blogs and came across this one: Information abyss – in the era of global education
Are we as educators balancing on the edge?
I spend many an hour at home just going through the web finding resources, ideas, and internet hyper-activity, to enhance the teaching and learning experience of my classes, through Moodle, Wikispace, Google Sites, etc. I do wonder though sometimes, when I look at my students, they look at me and wish for a chalk-and-talk lesson....
I started my Wikispaces for my students of IB Design Technology because resources were woefully limited, and I wanted to allow the students to be able to recap and review their learning outside of the classroom. 4-5 years later I now continue updating the Wikispaces with over 100,000 hits a year, and also add new resources for our school's Moodle platform, which I helped embed into the school as a central learning gateway and provide training to all the staff. This past few months I have been thinking about the nature of the work I do - spending many long hours after the school day is over, coming up with more and more interactive lessons for my students, are they impressed? The only measure is - to be able to learn the curriculum content required so that they can pass their GCSEs and IB exams.
A week or so ago I had to leave two days cover and leave some practical work for the classes of Year 7 students, with a non-specialist teacher. I decided to leave a lesson based on the flipped teaching ideas, so students watched video explanations and instructions, fed back their learning through a Google Docs form and the comments were used as a review using Wordle in the following lesson. As each of the lessons finished I checked the Google Forms responses and was pleased to see that students had both understood and completed the tasks without any problems, and later checked with the cover teachers - they actually congratulated me on providing lessons in which the students were completely engaged.
On reflection, most of my lessons are flipped, flipped lessons, so I'm going to concentrate on flipping the lessons around again.
Here are the resources (they were all embedded into the school's Moodle) and the results of the flipped learning lesson I used with my Year 7s.
The video was made using Dabbleboard and Screencast-o-matic and posted to Vimeo
I've decided on a new name for my widget Wednesdays - blog852learning - this will match up with all my other sites which are all migrating to the name 852learning (if you are not sure about the 852 is the international dialing code for Hong Kong which is where I live and teach).
Still thinking about a new Blog title.......... However in my quest for a new title, I have been eFlipping through the top 100 educational blogs and came across this one: Information abyss – in the era of global education
Are we as educators balancing on the edge?
I started my Wikispaces for my students of IB Design Technology because resources were woefully limited, and I wanted to allow the students to be able to recap and review their learning outside of the classroom. 4-5 years later I now continue updating the Wikispaces with over 100,000 hits a year, and also add new resources for our school's Moodle platform, which I helped embed into the school as a central learning gateway and provide training to all the staff. This past few months I have been thinking about the nature of the work I do - spending many long hours after the school day is over, coming up with more and more interactive lessons for my students, are they impressed? The only measure is - to be able to learn the curriculum content required so that they can pass their GCSEs and IB exams.
A week or so ago I had to leave two days cover and leave some practical work for the classes of Year 7 students, with a non-specialist teacher. I decided to leave a lesson based on the flipped teaching ideas, so students watched video explanations and instructions, fed back their learning through a Google Docs form and the comments were used as a review using Wordle in the following lesson. As each of the lessons finished I checked the Google Forms responses and was pleased to see that students had both understood and completed the tasks without any problems, and later checked with the cover teachers - they actually congratulated me on providing lessons in which the students were completely engaged.
On reflection, most of my lessons are flipped, flipped lessons, so I'm going to concentrate on flipping the lessons around again.
Here are the resources (they were all embedded into the school's Moodle) and the results of the flipped learning lesson I used with my Year 7s.
Y7 Control Systems1 from Jutka Czirok on Vimeo.
"Summerise what you have learnt from the video."
"Name three components mentioned in the video."
I've decided on a new name for my widget Wednesdays - blog852learning - this will match up with all my other sites which are all migrating to the name 852learning (if you are not sure about the 852 is the international dialing code for Hong Kong which is where I live and teach).
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