Topic outline
Flipped Classroom - Web Resources
MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.
Consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written work. It seeks to draw students into the past, promote engagement with big ideas, and improve intellectual and academic skills.
Flipped Classroom - "How to" Videos
Useful Software
Excellent, free screencasting software. Will record anything on your screen along with audio. Webcam can also be used to capture/display your image in picture-in-picture box.
iPad app that allows you to use your iPad as a virtual whiteboard. All activity can be recorded and uploaded for viewing by your students. See an example of an Educreations recording being playbacked on a computer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3lEK7bvl4
Free Windows software for editing videos. Can be used to "reorient" your videos.
Used to create ways for people to do and learn using interactive, online and mobile communications. Focuses on engaging the user and the quality of their experience.
Example "Flipped" Videos