The flipped classroom model provides more processing time, and more time for quality face to face collaborative learning. In my current job I am working primarily with adult learners, and have been exploring a blended learning model this year leveraging our new district wide tool, Edivate. In theory a great idea, but the actual tool PD360, Edivate is a bit antiquated. But, we are working with what we have. This class session gave me an opportunity to explore several other tools mentioned in the iCare. There are so many great options, I hope to utilize with our Lead Teachers next year. Specifically, this session I enjoyed exploring different ways to share information with teachers and students. I have explored EdPuzzle, Vocaroo, and Adobe Spark. Thoughts on... EdPuzzle Ed Puzzle is AMAZING! Wow, such an easy user interface and the fact that you can do it with any video is great. Within Edivate I have been building out courses and am struggling with building in questions throughout videos and easy voice over. So, now thinking I would like to create in Ed Puzzle and then upload...my question, will it be able to download into an MP4? As for use within my Prototype...I am thinking incorporating quick videos that showcase different strategies, that will provide the "What" for teachers. Such a quick and easy way to share information, and leverages that "flipped learning", which allows teachers to chose what they want to learn more about. I used Edpuzzle for my flipped classroom lesson, which I will share with K-2 ELA/ELD Lead Teachers next week during our last lead meeting that is focused on writing. Vocaroo I am exploring how to use Vocaroo for students to hear themselves read, or to hear an audio recording of a more complex passage of text. This supports my driving question of: What is the impact of focused language instruction when leveraging the feedback of a comprehension tool? I look forward to including this as a resource for teachers to use with students struggling with complex text. This will enable them to focus on how they can comprehend the text, vs. just struggling to decode it. I might also include some of the "flipped learning" aspect, and record some snippets to include as well. Adobe Spark What a tool, and free. I am exploring this tool in my other class, as my partner and I are creating a video for our book study, Visible Learning for Literacy. We are finding limitations with the graphic orientation, having to create visuals in other products. I do like Spark Post, which isn't all that different than the other info-graphic sites I have used. I hope to use the videos I am creating in this class with our Lead groups, and also leverage it for short videos that give a small amount of content to teachers in a "flipped way". I am working to explore different ways to deliver content in a digestible way, that then allows teachers to use their face to face time to collaborate. I look forward to "playing" with this tool more. Barriers for teacher use? I don't see too many barriers, but like any tools they need to be used in the best way possible. Many of the comments that I have had for teachers, is that we need to make sure and build in a level of collaboration. I want to hear what my fellow teachers have to say, and ideas they have, how best do I do that? To me, that is including google classroom, and now that we can utilize that in the district I am eager to explore using that as a collaborative method more. Video used as an assessment? Absolutely. These tools can provide a quick, formative assessment for teachers after processing through some content. I have been exploring using Edivate and their reflection questions with Leads, but I loved how Edpuzzle allows you to pause the video as ask specific questions, such as what do you notice the students doing? Are they engaged? I love this idea, and helps me process even more.
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AuthorKarly Miller Archives
May 2017
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