YouTube Playlist Tips

Although YouTube is blocked in West Virginia schools for students, the ability to create playlists for students is valuable in the flipped classroom. Alice Keeler offers a few hints for building, ordering, and editing videos for a playlist.

http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2014/06/22/youtube-playlist-tips/

She mentions in the beginning of the blog post about trying to keep videos to 30 seconds, but not longer than three minutes. It seems that she wants to segment her lessons into short, rapid-fire videos. This is an interesting idea for maintaining student engagement.

Alice publishes a plethora (really) of information on using Google Apps. Blog how is located at:
http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/

Flipping Tools

This link list below is a summary of the free or low cost tools that we have used so far for the Flipped Learning project:

Video production tools

Office Mix

Explain Everything

Screencast-o-matic

iMovie

Touchcast

Lensoo

ShowMe

Educreations

Video Delivery

YouTube

SchoolTube

Vimeo

TeacherTube

Google Drive

Google Hangouts

Dropbox

LMS-ish

Weebly

Moodle

Edmodo

Schoology

Polling/Survey tools

TestMoz

Socrative

Poll Everywhere

Geddit

Kahoot

9 Things Every Student Should Be Able to Do with Google Drive

I came across this in my newsfeed last night. It highlights some of the features that students may miss when using Google Drive (Docs). Shortened URL for site: http://goo.gl/hHrakb


"9 Things Every Student Should Be Able to Do with Google Drive ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning." 9 Things Every Student Should Be Able to Do with Google Drive ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2014.

Great tips for using Google Drive in Education

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/02/12-ways-to-leverage-power-of-google.html