Utilizing FREE Internet Resources to Flip Your Classroom. Presenter: Shannon J. Holden

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1 Utilizing FREE Internet Resources to Flip Your Classroom Presenter: Shannon J. Holden

2 This Presentation I gave this presentation to the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals Convention in October, me at newteacherhelp@yahoo.com if you would like this presentation in PowerPoint format

3 Free Online Training Go to this link to grab a copy of our most popular online teacher training course for FREE!

4 Earn Three Graduate-Level Credits Why spend money on travel expenses when you can train your teachers online? New Teacher Help course: Flipped Teaching course:

5 Who Is Shannon Holden? Taught H.S. Math and M.S. History for 8 years in Texas Assistant Principal for 3 years in Texas at a 9 th Grade only building Assistant Principal for 11 years in Missouri Adjunct Instructor at Lindenwood University and Missouri State University Online Instructor for The University of North Dakota & The University of The Pacific

6 Overview of Today s Session What is Flipped Teaching? What are the advantages of Flipping? What are the naysayers saying? How can I train my staff?

7 Let s Start With a Free Tip Use Dropbox to help you Flip Use this link to sign up for your free DropBox account Once you sign up, make a few folders like Private, Work Stuff, My Class, etc. You start out with 2GB, but can earn half a Gigabyte for each person you refer to DropBox My DropBox account is 18GB!

8 Send It To DropBox You can send files to your DropBox account I also invite random people to send files to MY DropBox account Here s my address: shannon_fpg5@sendtodropbox.com You can send me videos, Word, Excel, PDF s, and PowerPoint files

9 Send to Dropbox

10 Save Your District Some Money! Make a folder called 1 st Period US History Fill it with all of your worksheets, PowerPoints, and other printed materials Make a link for the folder by clicking on the Chain links on the right side of the folder Share the link to the folder with your students

11 I Made a Folder Called Shannon Holden

12 I Made a Link For the Folder

13 Customize Your Link With bit.ly

14 I Called My Folder Shannon Holden

15 What Can You Put in Your Folder? Anything you want! Videos Word documents PDF s Excel documents PowerPoints holds my resume and other information potential employers want to know about me

16 I Made a Folder For YOU! Every ebook I ve ever written (10 of them) Implementing the Common Core New Teacher Survival Kit Why Do We Have To Go To School? Finding a Job in This Economy Flipped Teaching Matrix This Flipped Teaching PPT

17 Inside the Folder!

18 What s So Great About Flipping? Students view videos at home about the next day s lesson Students come to class the next day knowing what is going on Valuable class time is used for student questions, cooperative learning, project-based learning, class discussions

19 What s so Great About Flipping? Instead of students sitting at home trying to do their homework, they do their work under the guidance of the teacher Teachers are excited about the possibilities Students like watching the videos at home, as they are generally shorter than a lesson given in class Students don t like traditional lecture

20 What s So Great About Flipping? All of that cool technology your district purchased will actually get USED! SmartBoards ipads Laptops Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle have been dead for 2,400 years Let s try something different! It is 13 years into the 21 st Century let s teach using 21 st Century Skills!

21 How Flipping Can Fail Flipping frees up a lot of class time! Flipping fails when the teacher doesn t use class time wisely Flipping can fail if the teacher uses class time as a study hall Flipping can fail if the Principal forces teachers to try flipping Flipping can fail if teachers try to make more than one video per week

22 What the Naysayers Are Saying What if kids don t watch the videos? Many students don t have access to the Internet Flipping just takes an inefficient lesson delivery system (lecture) and transfers it to the home Flipping shifts the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student (Yes?)

23 What If Kids Don t Watch the Videos? How do you react when kids don t do their homework in the traditional classroom? One teacher suggests that kids who don t watch the videos complete worksheets or read the chapter while the rest of the class participates in a learning activity Some teachers are lucky and have one or more student computers where students can view the video to catch up

24 Many Students Don t Have Access Studies have shown that we have overestimated the number of students who have no Internet access There are many students who do not have Internet access to do SCHOOLWORK! Let s come up with solutions for students who truly do not have access

25 How Teachers Are Adapting Keep the school s computer lab open before school or after school Record videos on DVD for students to take home (atube Catcher does this) Save videos on a flash drive to send home with students w/computer but no Internet Students visit the public library or school library

26 How Teachers Are Adapting Play your video during the first few minutes of class while taking roll and other housekeeping chores If you are recording yourself presenting a PowerPoint, give students a printout of the PPT Have students visit your room before school, during lunch, or after school if you have student computers in your room

27 So Are You Ready to Learn How to Flip? Get out your Flipped Teaching Matrix I will walk you through it!

28 Now You Know! Now that you know how to Flip what are you going to do with this information? Who are you going to tell? How are you going to tell them? Are you going to motivate your staff to try? How are you going to motivate them? Are you going to force your staff to try?

29 Flip Your Faculty Meetings! Show your faculty that ANYONE can flip! This will free up time for your staff to discuss important issues as a department (or interdisciplinary teams) Show your staff that you VALUE their time! See the handout where I included an article teaching you how to flip your meetings

30 How Can I Train My Staff? Option #1 You go to a conference, then train your staff by yourself Advantage: YOU are in control! Disadvantage: Do you really want to do that? On top of all of your other responsibilities?

31 How Can I Train My Staff? Option #2: Send teachers to a conference Teachers travel to conference Teachers attend sessions related to Flipped Teaching Teachers return from conference energized! Teachers help get other staff members excited about Flipping their classroom

32 Why Does This Method Fail? You spend money for hotel, gas, plane ticket, meals, and the registration fees for the conference itself Teachers miss instructional time, and you pay for substitutes Teachers come back energized, but that quickly fades There is no follow up No accountability piece

33 How Can I Train My Staff? Option #3: Bring in an expert Do a full-day or half-day in-service Expert fires up staff! Staff is energized, and is ready to implement!

34 Why Does This Method Fail? You paid a LOT of money for the expert! You used one of your precious staff development days for this training The expert showed up for a day, now she s gone! No follow up Your staff has questions good luck! No accountability piece

35 What happens to YOUR staff over time? The staff sees one failed initiative after another They develop an attitude of This Too Shall Pass and just go through the motions Jumping on and off of bandwagons undermines your credibility as an administrator

36 How Can You Stop This Cycle? Make it possible for teachers to CHOOSE what PD they take PD is delivered online so you don t have to pay for travel expenses or substitutes Teachers learn at their own pace, in the comfort of their own home on their own time!

37 How Can You Stop This Cycle? Teachers aren t forced to sit through PD that has no relevance to them (where they can discourage others) Accountability is built in through quizzes and tests (teacher takes quiz, quiz is graded by the PD platform, and the grade is sent to the Principal s inbox) Course is owned by the school district forever, and can be used as a reference

38 I Will GIVE You a Course! The course is called Digital Teacher I show teachers how to teach using digital resources Teachers can take the course and receive 15 hours of Continuing Education credit Course contains lessons, quizzes, assignments, videos, PowerPoints, Word documents, PDF s

39 What Do YOU Have to Do? I need your personal address School district spam filters are brutal! You will not be put on an list marketing is dead (10% open rate) I need the names of teachers you want to take this free course(you can take it too!) I will make the usernames and passwords, and them to you

40 What Will Happen Next? I will you a list of usernames and passwords for each person who you want to take the course I will you a PDF you can print out (or forward by to your people) which explains step by step how to find the course and log in

41 How Can I Learn More? Go to

42 Before You Go: Don t forget to fill out your Free Digital Training sheet and give it to me If you have any questions, see me after the presentation Thank you for your time and attention, I hope to see you again soon (maybe in San Antonio at ISTE 2013)