![]() You should definitely check it out though, you might love it!ĬlickView actually has this interactive quiz thing baked into their hosting, which makes things a bit easier. I find they add more time to my process without enough added benefit. That said, I actually don’t use them in my classroom. Videos become interactive lessons, with embedded questions creating greater engagement and allowing you to get information on students’ understanding of the content.Ĭlick here to experience that lesson in full If you haven’t seen what websites like Playposit or Edpuzzle can do with video, I definitely recommend taking a look. Making your video Interactive (optional): If you’re not sure, politely ask your IT department which of these options would work for sharing videos to your students. ![]() Schools with an LMS like Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, Haiku etc also usually have hosting baked in. Your school, State or district might have another option as well. Some options, in no particular order are: Itunes U, YouTube, ClickView, Vimeo, Office Mix (if you made your video with it). Now you need to put it on the web so your students can watch it. Now that you’ve got the first three steps done, time to make a video. I don’t roll that way but it works and, if you refer to the diagram above, solves hosting and interactivity for you as well (more on that further down). If you think your videos are going to be PowerPoint-style videos, you could also consider the microsoft add-on Office Mix. A selling point of Screencastify is that it will work on chromebooks, so if you happen to use one of those, Screencastify is for you. Of course, for the sake of balance, you can check out its poor cousin Screencastify. If you’d like to learn how to use Screencastomatic, I’ll teach you how here. The paid version also has amazing editing features. It will record your screen, your webcam or both at the same time. It’s free, or you can spend $15 a year to get the bells and whistles version (I recommend!). ![]() If you’re on a laptop, I’m increasingly convinced the ONLY choice is Screencastomatic. Pick one and stick to it until you have a good reason to switch. If you’d like to record your tablet screen instead, there are several options out there: Explain Everything, Knowmia, Showme, Educreations. Just point the camera at yourself and press record. If you’re on a tablet or on your phone you’ll have video recording software built in. Now here’s where things get more interesting. You can also use your mobile phone if you’re interested, great for those PE teachers among us who need to capture video in the great outdoors. Computers all have webcams on them, a tablet does too. You’ll need one of these, but luckily we’ve all got one. ![]() If you’d like to build one, click here to find out how. I also use a lightboard, as you can see above. You can use a dedicated video camera but I feel like this adds an extra step in the process you could do without. I often use a document camera so I can film myself drawing on a real life piece of paper. To see the slower, video version of the above gif, click this link.Ī webcam is usually built into your device (the next bit in the list) so you can use that. Think about how you want your video to look. Here’s what you need on the video side of a flipped classroom:įor a “clickable version” of this image, follow this link.īefore you have a look at the options for video making. There are just so many unknowns around it. The video making bit is the barrier to entry. It’s the face to face time that really matters!īut what you can’t get around is that when it comes to flipped learning, the new part, the hard part, is making the videos. It’s the extra time you have for collaboration, for 1:1 chats with students, for feedback. Everyone who flips knows that the real benefit to flipped learning is what happens in your classroom. I myself even gave a talk at Flipcon last year with this exact title.īut the truth is, it kind of IS about the videos. “Flipped Learning is NOT about making videos…” I hear this so often when flipped learning gets discussed. Originally published at Flipped Learning – Ed Tech Enthusiast
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