This presentation was made at the 2012 MANS convention (Michigan Association of Nonpublic Schools) It details how I flipped my classroom and my experiences (good & bad).

1. What do you want to know?
Pedagogy
Is the “flipped classroom” good teaching/learning?
How should it be implemented?
Technology
How do you make the videos?
How do students watch the videos?
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

2. The Flipped Classroom:
How Videos can turn Your Classroom Upside-Down
Dale Eizenga
deizenga@hollandchristian.org
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

3. Introduction
Slides are at: slideshare.net (search on “eizenga)
About me
HCHS Chemistry teacher since 1992
Always enjoyed using technology for education
Started using video in 2009
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4. Who’s in the Room?
Have you...
Heard/Read about Flipped Classrooms
Know someone who has “flipped”
Have done some “flipping”
Just wandered in & hoping to get cheap SB-CEU’s
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5. My Story
Chemistry
Lab Skills - using balances, hot plates, volumetric flasks
Math Skills - calculations
Frustrations
Demonstrate & Repeating Lab Skills - I need 8 more of me!
How many Example Calculations on the board?
Everyone learns at different paces - Differentiated Educ.
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6. My Story (cont.)
Holland Christian H.S goes 1 to 1 laptops!
I started making videos & putting them on Moodle
This would change everything!
This would change some things - I see the flip happen
Others were talking about this too:
Wes Fryer: wesfryer.com
Salman Khan: khanacademy.org
Jonathan Bergman/Aaron Sams: flippedclassroom.org
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7. Learning Skills
How do you learn a Skill?
Demonstration - by an “expert”
Practice, Practice, Practice
Feedback
Learning “on-line”
Good: 24/7, learn/review at different paces,
Bad: no feedback
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8. Using Technology
I was blessed with...
Highly Supportive Environment
Dedicated funds
Everyone trying new things
Administration support
Gifted & Dedicated Tech people
Don’t let a different environment discourage you
This has been done in many situation & different ways!
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9. Two Track Discussion
Pedagogy Technology
Directed OR Inquiry? Highly Supported OR
Less Supported?
Discussion:
Discussion:
What skills do you
teach? What time, technology,
& energy do you have
available?
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10. Making Videos
Lab Skills - this is where I started
Easy - Camera & iMovie (w/help from my son)
Math Skills - need 3 things
Electronic white board
Writing instrument
Recording audio/video of screen
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11. Making Videos (cont.)
Writing Instrument:
Electronic White Board:
stylus, Wacom slate
Promethean: ActivInspire
(software w/ActivSlate)
Skitch (free download) Recording screen:
iPad apps: Screencast-o-matic (website)
Explain Everything! Camtasia (software)
Screenchomp, ShowMe, Built in to program/app
Educreations
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12. What Happened?
Students HATED it! & Students did AWFUL!
“Teacher isn’t teaching us” & “I can’t learn this way”
“I thought I understood it” & “I don’t get it”
Changes that I made
Explained various ways to use the videos:
Introduction, while performing the skill, as review
Offered optional lectures - one day, 1 or 2 problems “live”
Students began CHOOSING how to LEARN
I “flipped”: more time to work with more help in class
- that work used to happen at home, help before/after school
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13. Two Track Discussion
Pedagogy Technology
Why do you think Which method of
students reacted making a video seems
they way they did? most plausible for you?
What preparation What hurdles will you
could be done for a need to over come?
smoother start?
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14. My “Flipped Classroom”
My classroom began to look like this:
12 students up at the front listening to a 20min lecture -
then I am watching/asking Q’s/answering Q’s
(Assessing!)
Students watching videos: alone & together
Students working on practice sheets (remember these are
skills) & checking answers online
Not all the time - I do it with skills not concepts
Students use/request the videos after they leave my class!
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15. The “Flipped Classroom”
“Flipped Classroom”
Students watch videos at home & practice in class w/teacher
as tutor
Hesitations & Criticisms:
Some students benefit from lecture - esp. if they chose it
Choosing HOW to use the videos is a powerful way to have
students own their learning, rather than as an “assignment”
Skills vs. Concept & Doing vs. Understanding
Ramsey Mussallum - Explore, Flip, Apply
Q’s in the videos
Misconceptions & mistakes (expert & novice in video)
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16. Student Access
On the Internet: Use someone else’s videos
Khan academy
iTunesU
Search YouTube, Vimeo, SchoolTube
WARNING: Can students get to it?
Giving students access to your videos
Moodle/Google site/Posterous - limited upload sizes
Be your own iTunesU - need tech people!
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17. Two Track Discussion
Pedagogy Technology
Which hesitations Which method of
resonate with you? distribution is best for
Do you have your situation?
additional ones?
What hurdles will you
What about the need to over come?
flipped style might
be better than what
you are doing?
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18. Student/Parent Comments
Parents - at P/T conferences
I wish I had this - I might have done better in chemistry!
That’s what I heard all the way to Florida!
Students
I like to watch the videos before the lecture and see if I need to
come to it.
I use them while I’m doing the problems when I get stuck and
don’t know the next step
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19. Thanks for coming!
Dale Eizenga
deizenga@hollandchristian.org
Wednesday, October 17, 2012