Touchcast Poll Test

Follow the link below to watch a short video and vote for November training.

http://www.touchcast.com/jasonjackson/Touchcast-Poll-Test

A couple of quick guides to adding a calendar, adding pizazz to your site as well as Google site basics:

Adding Pizazz

Creating a new calendar

Adding a calendar to your site

Color and Fonts

Google Basics

YouTube Whitelist through Webtop

Short video tutorial on how to whitelist a YouTube video in WVDE Webtop.

WEEBLY

Jason Jackson reminded me a little while ago about a cool FREE site creator called Weebly. The interface is really easy to use and all the bells and whistles makes me want to leave my Google site and jump on the Weebly bandwagon. I just got my students to access my site through Google so Weebly may be something that I use next year. My advice would be to try different sites out to see which would be best for you, your parents and your students. Happy creating!

Google Site Creation

This 8 minute video walks you through the creation process.

This second video gives the highlights of the "manage site" menu

 Feel free to take a look at my google site: Mrs. Conner's class

Flipped Classroom and Student Engagement

This one showed up in my news feed. A study from Canada shows that students perceptions of learning are different than those of the traditional classroom. They include:

• Increased communication opportunities
• More relevant classroom activities 
• Time to complete homework in class
• More enjoyable learning experience

Brief overview is here:

Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom-New Research

Full article may be retrieved from:
Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom

Hello all!

Touchcast is a pretty cool app that allows you to create videos with manipulatives that your students can use during the video!

I intend to use this one the next time I create a video to see if I like it and also if my students like it as well.


Currently this app is FREE so try it out because it isn't going to be free for long!


http://www.touchcast.com/

This is a pretty cool video as well that shows from the student's perspective how one teacher flips her classroom.Flipped Mastery Video (works best to view on the iPad)

Fun with iMovie Trailers

From our meeting yesterday:

Remember that you can use iMovie to create interest, have students build content, and to edit your lessons or resources for flipped.

Jason passed this interesting article along to the group earlier this week.  It is worth reading the preliminary conclusions from a multi-year study of student performance.
Since the flipped classroom is still a fairly new concept, there aren't many studies that have collected empirical data on student performance.  This one may provide some of the data that supports what we have been seeing in our classes.

The Flipped Classroom Boosts Grades 5%. Why That’s As Big As We Can Expect.

Thank you for finding the article and passing it along to the group.

Interesting articles

Here are a few "flipped classroom" articles worth checking out.  These have been sent by Ms. Sawrey, Judge O'Hanlon and Dr. Barbara Maynard.

• http://remakelearning.org/blog/2013/06/18/how-the-flipped-classroom-helps-students-take-charge-of-their-own-learning-a-qa-with-aaron-sams/
• http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/06/18/report-the-4-pillars-of-the-flipped-classroom.aspx

• http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/education-technology-flipping-the-classroom/ - although the video is nearly an hour long, it is worth watching.