Friday, March 13, 2015

Screencast

When looking into the various websites to use for setting up a flipped classroom, I could definitely see myself using a few of them for various subjects. If I were to try a flipped classroom, I would pick content from lessons that I feel would help build students understanding, making them more engaged by watching a video of my instruction or a video where they have to answer questions. I like the idea of having students learn about the content ahead of time and then discussing it in class and taking it one step further with guided practice, etc.
Here are a few examples of how I could use this in my own classroom:
  •  The eduCanon, Teachem, and Blubbr websites would be great to use for our science curriculum, especially when reviewing for NESA. I could look up videos that review weathering, deposition, erosion (Bill Nye) and type up questions that go along with it as students watch the video. 
  • Educreations would be a great tool to use with math lessons that have multiple steps, such as long division, or even lessons where drawing out pictures would help students' understanding (for example when we learn about polygons, angles, and types of lines.) 
For my screencast, I decided to do a grammar lesson on Educreations about adjectives to show my students before they do independent practice in their grammar packets. I could see myself setting it up where I would send it to my students for them to listen to ahead of time, but with the timing of this week and wanting to explain it to them ahead of time, I am just planning on showing the video to them and then discussing it before they work independently.
Here is a link to my lesson:
https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/adjectives-lesson/30088790/?s=CpUheZ&ref=appemail

Concerns with Educreations: I couldn't figure out if you could listen to your recording before you saved your lesson and wasn't sure if after you saved your lesson if you could go back in and edit it at all.  I think it is a great resource, but I wonder if this will be even more work for the teacher to prepare for ahead of time! That's why I can see myself using it in moderation.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Rachelle - great use of Educreations for your grammar lesson. The way you highlighted parts of the text and explained/coached your way through the sample questions made it engaging and easy to understand.

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