Flipping Your Classroom Using Screencasting
Flipping the classroom, generally speaking, involves the use of a blended learning teaching model, where technology is used to provide students with the learning material outside of class, so that classroom time can be spent on interactive exercises and activities. Some phrase this as "lecture at home, practice at school."
Ways to Flip Your Classroom
- Students can teach each other by making their own videos and posting documents and comments online
- Students read material, watch screencasts and videos, and take basic knowledge quizzes outside of class and then use class time for review, Q & A sessions, discussions, presentations, and hands-on practice time; can focus class time on games, experiments, performance arts, etc…
Advantages of Flipping
- Students can review the instruction repeatedly
- Can provide students with more control over their learning (where and how they learn)
- During practice in class, students can refer back to recordings and other “lecture” material before asking for one-on-one help
- Students that have to be absent from class due to illness, bad weather, etc… can stay on track
- Instructors can use the same content in multiple classes, over multiple semesters
- Provides more time for mastery of the course material
For further information, you can check out:
- Educause's "7 Things You Should Know About Flipped Classrooms."
- The Official Peer Instruction Blog's Seven Myths about the Flipped Classroom
Screencasting
Screencasts are video recordings of your computer screen. Screencasts can also incorporate voice-over narrations and annotations.
Software for desktop/laptop:
- Screencast-o-matic (free) - One-click screen recording on Windows or Mac computers. No software installation required – completely web based – upload recordings to YouTube. Max recording time is 15 minutes. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com
- Screenr (free) – another web-based screen recording application which works on Windows or Mac computers. No software to install. Automatically publishes recordings to Screenr site and makes them public, however you can also publish to YouTube. Max recording time is 5 minutes. http://www.screenr.com
Software for iPad (all export as movies):
- Educreations (free)- turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard with audio
- ShowMe (free)- allows you to create voice-over whiteboard tutorials
- ExplainEverything ($2.99)- allows annotations, audio, website capture, import of PowerPoint slides and PDF files
- Screenchomp (free)- whiteboard
- Explain a Website (.99)- loads a browser window and allows audio recording and annotation
- Here is an example of a video created with ExplainEverything:
