Flipping a classroom requires teachers to ask themselves "What is the best use of my class time?". Flipping professional development attempts to move training beyond a "one size fits all model" and lets teacher learn technology at their own pace and in the context of their classroom.

1. Flipping Professional
Development
MACUL 2013
Dan Spencer
Jackson County ISD
@runfardvs
Thursday, March 21, 13

2. Is PD ever like this?
YouTube - Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University
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3. Is PD ever like this?
YouTube - Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University
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4. Dan Spencer
Educational Technology Consultant - JCISD
Former JH/HS Science Teacher
Contact Info:
dan.spencer@jcisd.org
Twitter: @runfardvs
Website: danielvspencer.org
TeamJXN website: connectingeducators.weebly.com
Thursday, March 21, 13

5. The bane of any PD is
logging in
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6. Compare your “best” PD
experience with your “worst”
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9. “Can you come in and show
my teachers how to use
Microsoft Office?”
[Local principal, one week before school
started]
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10. Put teachers in a PD
situation and we become
our students.
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11. Apply what I learned flipping
my chemistry classroom
towards teacher PD
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12. How My Teachers Felt
Jackson County Teacher Feedback
Appropriate Training Time 46%
Learned More Than I Knew Before 53%
Practiced Using the Technology 51%
Knew Where to Go With Questions 51%
Effective Use of My Time 42%
Able to Use Right Away 36%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
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13. Free Response Results
Category % Mentioned
“It didn’t apply to my classroom” 36%
“Didn’t get to try it” 24%
“But how do I use it in my teaching?” 11%
“I already knew it” . . . “I was lost” 11%
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14. Pre-survey vs. Overall Post-
Training Feedback
46%
Appropriate Training Time
67%
53%
Learned More Than I Knew Before
84%
Practiced Using the Technology 51%
84%
51%
Knew Where to Go With Questions
86%
42%
Effective Use of My Time
93%
36%
Able to Use Right Away
67%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Pre Survey Post Training
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15. TPACK.org
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16. Effective PD . . .
Focus on classroom application
Choice of tools
At their own pace - tutorials available
Learn by doing
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17. Can you show my teachers how to
use PowerPoint?
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18. Instead . . .
Focus on creating engaging
presentations
Choices (PPT, Google Pres, and Prezi)
How to screencasts
“Learn by doing” project
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19. Hour Or Less PD
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20. Learn-By-Doing Quickfires
Leigh Graves-Wolfe @gravesle
MSU MAET
http://www.leighgraveswolf.com/2009/08/19/quickfires-explained
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21. iPad BINGO
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22. 5 Picture Story
Digital Storytelling on the iPad
Pic Collage or FrameArtist App
Take one picture representing something you have
learned at MACUL
Upload photo at www.dropitto.me/runfardvs
PW: “runner”
Wes Fryer “Playing With Media”
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/story-in-5-photos/
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23. Half Day / One Day Trainings
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24. connnectingeducators.weebly.com
learnbydoingprojects.weebly.com
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25. Example PD
http://bit.ly/flippedpdexample
Formative Assessment for Screencasts
ed.ted.com or pen.io
Create a flipped TED-Ed video or
embed a YouTube video and Google
Form into a pen.io page
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26. Long Term PD
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27. FlippedPD.org
Kristin Daniels @kadaniels
Wayne Feller @fellbop
Stillwater, MN
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28. Connected Educator
Projects
Kim Powell @powell4thgrade
http://bit.ly/jcisdchallenge
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29. Let’s talk
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30. Contact Info
Email: dan.spencer@jcisd.org
Twitter: @runfardvs
Website: danielvspencer.org
TeamJXN Website: connectingeducators.weebly.com
Thursday, March 21, 13