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Flipped Classroom in a language class

Does anyone know of someone who uses flipped classroom and vodcasting for a language course? This is all new to me and I'm trying to get started and connected to other language teachers that may already be using the flipped classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Seigel on April 18, 2011 at 7:31pm

One of the Italian teachers in my school is interested in trying a blended model next year. Eventually I will get her to join the ning and then you can connect with her.

Marc

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie Barabe-Chin on April 18, 2011 at 10:11pm

Thanks Marc, that would be great. This is all new to me but I'd to see how we can make it work in a language class.

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Permalink Reply by sophia aron on June 15, 2012 at 12:24pm

I teach Arabic with a flipped classroom. We have screencasts to teach grammar, explain difficult homework exercises, show students their mistakes..., hopefully by the end of the summer my team and I will have created a bank of screencasts that serve as an answer key that allows for students to self check homework. They do most homework online via a platform created by Quia books which corresponds to their textbook and they also use smart digital flashcards. Teachers have a dashboard to monitor the homework and then class time is very interactive. I try to make sure each student gets 80% on each exercise but getting students to redo exercises, a day or two after they were first done and based on feedback I give, has been challenging. They think once they have done an exercise, that's it, it's done and over.

I just started to use Edmodo with them and am looking into google docs. The students don't always watch the screencasts and I can tell easily based on their scores. I saw some teachers make sure students do watch the screencasts by having them take notes on the screencasts and turn them in.

This is a screencast I made that teaches the alphabet:

http://youtu.be/M3JxL4qNGnU

This one is explaining to a student what he did wrong:

http://youtu.be/qxsHzV4V5GQ

This one is for self check after the exercise has been turned in for grading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQUXrKktjA&feature=youtube_gdat...

I would be really interested in hearing how other language teachers flipp the classroom as I have not come across too many others.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Dumontier on June 16, 2012 at 6:27pm

To make sure my students watch the video, I usually embed a google form with some comprehension questions right below the video. I can see in my google spreadsheet who and who has not answered the questions.
Anne

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Permalink Reply by sophia aron on June 16, 2012 at 6:33pm

How do you embed it? Did you have to do it at the time you made the screencast or can you do it later? This is my biggest frustration with my students...

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Permalink Reply by Anne Dumontier on June 20, 2012 at 12:21pm

Once you have your video made, you should load it on youtube or vimeo. When you view the video, you have the option to share, and there you can choose the URL link or the code to embed. You cppy the embed code (it is in HTML). Then I have a website for my class (using google site). So I create a new page, and I access the HTML view of that page. There I paste the embed code.

I do the samething with the google form. Once I have ceated my form, I can embed it on my webpage, just below the video.

Does that help?

Anne

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Permalink Reply by sophia aron on August 5, 2012 at 11:41pm

Yes, sorry for not replying earlier. I haven't been on the website in a while.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Dumontier on June 16, 2012 at 6:23pm

Hello Sylvie
Yes, I have been experimenting this year flipping my classroom. I teach French in a public High School. Students enjoyed watching my videos at home and enjoyed having more time to practice in class. They really like having to watch videos as homework as opposed to busy homework...
I 'll be happy to be in touch with you
Anne

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie Barabe-Chin on June 18, 2012 at 5:03pm

Bonjour Anne,

I would love to hear and see how you have flipped your classroom. Do you do your webcasts in French or English? What were the first steps you did? I don't know where and how to begin.

Sylvie

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Permalink Reply by Anne Dumontier on June 20, 2012 at 12:36pm

I chose a unit in the textbook that I needed to teach. It was about the Futur simple and near futur.

I created two "instructional pages" on my class website where I posted some videos with some google forms. I used some videos from the textbook, but I also made a couple on my own using ExplainEverthing on an iPad (it is like using a whiteboard to explain things) and also Jing on my MacBook ( I prepared a powerpoint and I recorded myself speaking over the powerpoint presentation). All the videos that I do, I speak in French. I figure my students can watch over and over so it is a good listening comprehension practice. I have intermediate level students who have 1 or 2 years of French.

Then for two weeks, I told my students we were flipping he classroom. They were very excited!. A homework, they had to go the website pages I had created and watch the videos and answer the comprehension questions on the google form (I could also have given them a worksheet to fill out). The ideas was that I could tell who had not watched the videos. I had only a couple students who didn't watch.

Then when they came to class, we went straight in doing practices exercises and group-based application. I just had more time to do what normally I don't have time too.

For more details, You can read my posts thing#5 and thing#6 from March on my blog: http://dumontiertech.blogspot.com/

Voilà

I hope it helps

Anne