I really appreciated Flipped Classroom 101 and the Catlin Tucker articles. While flipping the classroom sounds amazing and would make classroom time more meaningful these two articles touched on how difficult it is for some students to access online content at home after a long day of school. But the "In-Class" Flip, presented by Jennifer Gonzalez, sounds like something I can get behind. The model sounds a lot like "Daily 5" where students rotate in small groups to practice various ELA skills. Instead switch out one of the rotations with a video introducing a new topic while you, the teacher, can work with a small group or monitor students. Add in an additional station so students can practice the new skill from the video. Depending on your class size you'll want about 4-6 stations.
I am using Powtoon create a video to intro a lesson on early California history. I chose Powtoon because it offered templates as well as a free trial. I would have used Adobe Spark but I've already used it. Powtoon was really tricky to use on my computer. When I tried to insert images it took me to settings. The Earth background came in and out of my recording. Overall it was really frustrating, but the end product came out okay. It's just a fancy powerpoint with music. From the videp students will go to NewsELa to read articles about Native Americans and the California Missions. Additional stations will be: California missions mapping, sequencing major Vallejo city events on a timeline, draw your vision of early Vallejo, and the final add-in station will be writing about the relationship between Vallejo and the missions. I'm waiting to try this lesson out with my Induction mentor on April 16, so she can see some of the new strategies we've been trying out here. It will also be nice to have an extra set of hands in case my students have a difficult time transitioning stations since that is not something we do often.
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Scott Marsden
4/7/2019 08:52:35 am
Catie,
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Catalina Goldstein
4/7/2019 01:24:41 pm
Hey Scott, was that one of our readings this week? I would love some more support in that area.
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Jona Sandau
4/7/2019 09:00:29 pm
Catie,
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Rafael Garcia Avila
4/9/2019 03:23:46 pm
Hi Catie and Jona,
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Jennifer Perkins
4/7/2019 11:53:58 pm
Hi Catie, I like how you are using an in-class flip via stations! I agree that it is similar to the Daily 5 model with small groups. This time period would be a seamless way to integrate a flipped classroom lesson. I like how you used Newsela as an extension after the video. This will increase student learning and also provide more content for the students to interact with.
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JP
4/8/2019 08:46:32 pm
That video turned out really fancy! It was cool that you created it around our hometown. Until there is an app that is super fast and clean like Spark and on top of being free - I think spark is the winner. I have to say though, that video came out really great.
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Tess Giner
4/9/2019 12:56:34 pm
Hey, you! I wanted to use Powtoon, but I'm too cheap. I'm always afraid of "free trails." Plus, I didn't really get far in the description before I thought, "Next!" I love Screeen-0-Matic and iMovie. So far, those are my go-to's. I really want to play with Adobe Spark this week. Hopefully, I won't mess it up like I did with Screencastify.
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Rafael Garcia Avila
4/9/2019 03:33:25 pm
Catie,
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4/9/2019 11:58:11 pm
Hey Katie
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