This shelf is full of resources and apps to help guide you in Flipping your classroom. It also has many valuable resources that can be used in the flipped classroom.
About The Tool: Dropbox enables students, teachers, and parents to work off the same set of information at the same time. It’s a popular cloud storage service that is free (for basic version) and lets you have a classroom folder that every student can pull and place data in. Using In Flipped Classrooms: The big method of implementing Dropbox in flipped classrooms is for homework and exit slips. Assignments can be turned in, handed out, and reports can even be peer reviewed. Exit slips can be safely delivered to parents and teachers by utilizing specific folders that people are ‘invited’ to. Once invited, you can place any document, link, photo, or other media file in and share it with anyone around the world. So it’s great for online learning too!
About The Tool: Evernote is simply a tool that lets you take all your thoughts with you. It’s like having an infinitely more powerful memory. Who needs a brain when you have an app or tool like Evernote? All joking aside, it’s a useful tool that lets you access your notes and other documents anywhere. Useful for all kinds of teachers and very simple to use. Using In Flipped Classrooms: Many respondents say they use Evernote as a means to help their students in a 1:1 device environment. Mind you, they’re not all 1:1 iPad environments, many emphasized that they have a 1:1 ‘device’ classroom that’s flipped. So that could mean anything. Luckily, Evernote works on just about every single platform out there. Students use it to sync their thoughts and ideas as a group and separately.
About The Tool: Edmodo may very well be the most-used web tool in education right now. So it’s no surprise that it’s popular among flipped classrooms. In case you haven’t tried it out, Edmodo is a classroom management platform designed to facilitate learning in all directions. By that I mean it lets students ask questions to other students, teacher to student, parent to teacher, etc. You get the idea. Using In Flipped Classrooms: Students continue discussions online, run polls, and can ask questions of classmates and others. It’s easy to see how Edmodo can be used in a classroom where the student controls their own pace of learning. Edmodo provides an always-on learning location that flipped teachers are really embracing.
About the tool: Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. You can use Audacity to: •Record live audio. •Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine. •Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. •Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files. •Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. •Change the speed or pitch of a recording. •And more! See the complete list of features.
Kahn Academy is a free lecture site that offers a library of over 3,000 videos that cover K-12 math; science topics such as biology, chemistry and physics; and even the humanities—with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, 10 minutes long on average and specifically designed for consumption via computer. Students can listen to the lectures at home and come to class with a baseline knowledge ready for hands on learning and creativity.
About The Tool: By far one of the most popular educational web tools available, Poll Everywhere is being used by classrooms, conferences, and with audiences large and small to get instant feedback. From presentations to keynotes to question-and-answer situations, it’s a useful (and free) tool for any classroom. Using In Flipped Classrooms: The tool makes itself a perfect method for garnering feedback from students, by students. The teacher doesn’t even need to be involved. According to what we’re hearing from our friends who wrote in, flipped classrooms use Poll Everywhere to enable students to keep track of the learning process among their classmates. Giving students control of the tool has proven to be quite effective.
Camtasia provides educators with the perfect solution to easily create videos that motivate students, inform parents and enhance learning. Camtasia screen recording software is smart, quick to learn, and feature rich! Simply record your live presentations or lectures and give your students a rewind button for every lesson. This helps them learn at their own pace or catch up from an absence. •Flip your classroom: create video lessons for students to watch as homework and focus on applying lessons during classroom time •Record your lessons so absent students don’t miss a beat •Add quizzes* to your videos to assess student understanding (*with Camtasia Studio only) •Create videos that students can watch anywhere, even on their own mobile devices
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Use this simple and free tool to create a video recording of your screen to upload and share on a teacher web page, wiki. blog, etc.. This is an easy way to create a tutorial from your own computer screen. When you visit sites that have tutorials on how to use their software, you are looking at a screencast. Use this site to give specific directions on how to use different applications in and out of the classroom. This site requires Java. Audio is not necessary for the screencasts but may be beneficial, depending upon the tutorial.
About The Tool: Teaching Channel is a video showcase—on the Internet and TV—of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America’s schools. We have a rapidly growing community of registered members who trade ideas and share inspiration from each other. Using In Flipped Classrooms: Like YouTube, the videos on Teaching Channel are specifically designed for education and useful for anyone of any age looking to learn more about topics like flipped classrooms. One of the most popular ways of using Teaching Channel in flipped classrooms seems to be students finding their own favorite videos and then trying to make their own similar to the ones they like.
Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.
