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Regardless of all of the advice we seek in advance, we all know that unique situations will present unique problems. Share your experiences as a first time flipper, or seek and offer advice to others in the same boat.

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Overwhelmed by flipping 26 Replies

Hello. My name is Julia Hill. I'm the only full-time math teacher in my school. I teach at our county's technical high school so our students travel from the three county high schools to our…Continue

Started by Julia Hill. Last reply by Hassan Wilson on Sunday.

Free lunch = school's poverty issues 3 Replies

I am very interested in implementing elements of the flipped classroom, but I need ideas with how to do so when our school demographics are 100% free lunch! Most of our students don't have computers…Continue

Started by Elise N Peeples. Last reply by Leanne Carabelos on Friday.

Good source of Grant funding for iPads 3 Replies

I am interested in flipping my classroom this year, but I know right away my main problem is lack of computer access. I have only 1 classroom computer and the laptop cart is totally trashed. I'd…Continue

Tags: writing, grant, ipads, grants

Started by Suzette Powell. Last reply by Mary Mehsikomer Jun 11.

Copyright 2 Replies

How does everyone address copyright? As a special education teacher , I cannot rely on my students to read novels as fast as the other students. I have 1 copy of the audio on CD and we have multiple…Continue

Tags: English, novels, materials, electronic, copyright

Started by Danielle Hillis. Last reply by Jerry Overmyer May 14.

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Comment by James O'Hearn on July 26, 2012 at 5:52am: @ dansensei

You do what you can. Do a few lessons, see what you can comfortably do, even if it's one lesson in ten, and build the inventory up over time. Over the first year you start to get comfortable with the methodology, you try a few things out, during the second year you tighten things, integrate resources, and by year three to four you've made the transition.

Comment by Deborah Moran on July 26, 2012 at 5:50am: How much and what to vodcast is up to you. Some folks go whole hog and do all of their lessons while other feel it is more appropriate to use for specific lessons and content.

Comment by danesensei on July 26, 2012 at 5:21am: Hi, I'm very interested in this flipping methodology, I have one question though, are we going to vodcast all our lessons/activities/homework for the whole semester? or as we deem it necessary?

Comment by Stacy Lovdahl on July 22, 2012 at 6:31am: I'm making my first parent night flip video today. If I get it done, I'll put it on my youtube channel LovdahlScience

Comment by Heather Witten on July 18, 2012 at 10:41am: This is a link to my blog where I have a parent video I am going to send out prior to the start of school, and in the document section is a copy of my parent letter. I am going to have students help make the back to school night video (hopefully). If you are looking for parent letters, videos, Crystal Kirch is compiling a list on her blog. Hopefully that helps!

Comment by Crystal Kirch on July 18, 2012 at 10:15am: We are collecting sample letters and videos on a google doc to share. Feel free to check them out for ideas or share yours here

#flipclass Introduction Videos and Letters - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoNSkh2FgPbXdGlsZ0ZORk...

Comment by Alicia Buse on July 17, 2012 at 4:18pm: I used My Big Campus last year. Loved it..and they have been adding new features ever since. You can Crete something called Bundles..which lets you pull together your resources online in one place for students to access, videos and all. They just added a Quiz section that lets you make online quizzes of any length, grading the multiple choice portion. I think there is a Blog section you can create too. I'm going to try flipping my classes using MBC this year.

Comment by Jonathan Bergmann on July 17, 2012 at 12:57pm: see my post about flipping elementary classrooms...http://flipped-learning.com/?p=883

Comment by Loan Nguyen on June 25, 2012 at 12:03am: Have anyone tried out mybigcampus? A lot of teachers from my school that I know that uses a Learning Management system uses Edmodo. However I came across MyBigCampus and it seems like a great alternative! If you have please let me know your option because I am looking into a LMS I can use for next year!

Thanks!

Comment by James O'Hearn on June 21, 2012 at 11:30am: @Sean

I am sure your students did say that. As have mine. And if those videos are only for your own students, great. But when there are hundreds of objectives in need of a video, it takes a team of people to make them, and that is where "being in the picture" can get in the way.

I also feel that whatever my students might say, it still does not negate the fact that my voice plus my big old face on the screen will always have less impact, and be less pedagogically sound that my voice and stuff (words, pictures, animations, etc) actually related to what I am talking about.

Also, when you are in the picture, you are stuck with it. What you say and what you do, can;t be changed easily. A voiceover, however, can easily be edited and altered without the need to remake a whole video.

Aside from that, I feel the voice alone has more impact without the visual distraction of the person. Maybe this is my bias as someone who used to work in radio, but there is a reason McLuhan noted that radio is a "Hot" medium.