FLIP Your Learning Style or Your Classroom
THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM
A "Flipped Classroom" is a classroom that uses class time to do activities/lessons (guided by the teacher) and "homework" time for guided instruction, usually through video. Basically, it turns a classroom upside down: the learning of a topic is done at home and then the applied practice or work is done at school. With Mobile Learning and BYOD becoming more mainstream, "Flipped Classroom" models are happening more and more. Below is a list of favorite tools for "flipping a classroom." For an excellent info-graphic on what a "Flipped Classroom" is click here.
The engaging power of Explain Everything comes from the ability to interact with every object. Whether it’s a video, drawing, text, or web browser it can be moved, rotated, and scaled. When recording all these interactions are recorded as well giving you the ability to create exciting, animated projects. Explain Everything is an app that allows you to annotate, animate, and narrate a presentation. The app allows you to either record over pre-made slides or create and edit slides as you record your video. You can include text, video, pictures, documents, and web pages into your presentation.
Click here for a great How-to including illustrations and a video.
ShowMe is an open learning community you can learn or teach anything. Over 2 million lessons have been created using the ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard iPad app, ranging from algebra to calculus to cooking. There are millions of great teachers out there; ShowMe empowers them to share their knowledge and teach the world.
Educreations is an exciting app that transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. It records your voice, handwriting and also allows you to insert pictures to produce your own personal video lessons that you and your students can share online. Your lessons are stored online and can be accessed by students on any computer or iPad.
It is easy to use, so it makes a great tool for assessing student knowledge. Putting this app in the hands of your second language learners will give assessment a whole new meaning. Students can create projects that apply to every level of Bloom's Taxonomy verbally and through illustrations.
Here is a great explanation and some VIDEOs for How-to-use!
KHAN ACADEMY
The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide "a free world-class education for anyone anywhere".
The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,500 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology,astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science. Khan Academy has delivered over 260 million lessons.
