Video Capture

Have you heard of flipping your classroom or your lessons?

I mean yes, there are lots of definitions of flipping.

Flipping your lid: get angry
Bottle flipping: "fun" past time to challenge your bottle flipping skills
House flipping: remodeling a house to make it look nice

You get the idea.

Well, you can flip a lesson or a classroom as well.  Basically, you find a way (very often a video) to show students the lesson/content at home and then they come to school to work through questions, practice problems, small group lessons, etc with support from the teacher.  What once was the lesson is now the homework and what was the homework is now the classwork.  It's "flipped".

Like I said, very often video is the format used to capture the lesson from the teacher so that students can watch it at home.  However, I have come to rely on video capture for so much...and I not flipping my lessons.  It can be used for so much more!

And guess what...I have a poster session on it at #ISTE17!  I'm so excited about it!

Once I have my full presentation, I'll happily post it.  However, I thought I'd give you an intro to how you can use video in your classroom.

One of my favorite ways to use video or rather have students use video is to present.  Now some students really have an issue with hearing their voice.  However, typically, if you reassure them that it will not be presented to the class, they are good.  I would recommend selecting a handful that are willing to actually present to the class though.  I'll get into that in a minute.

The reason to have students record their presentations is so that you don't have to take up class time for multiple days (ex. science period for 4 days) while students present their project and you grade the rubric.  If students are recording their presentation, they are still explaining their thought process, they are still explaining what they created or found, and they are still able to show you everything you have asked to see but now take away the fear of public speaking, take away the in class time factor, take away not being able to "redo" a presentation, take away having to rearrange if someone is sick, take away not being able to grade at home (with a glass of wine perhaps), etc.  The videos provide you and your students with some flexibility.

Here is a sample that one of my students created at the beginning of the year regarding whether or not Mother Teresa should have been canonized.  I asked them a question, gave them some resources, and asked them to create a presentation using any "powerpoint" style program they wanted and then to record over it explaining their thinking.  This student chose to use Adobe Spark on their iPad.  What do you think?

Here is a copy presentation with of the rest of the videos for your Google Drive:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cowNXnDZpa3pJbHOt4lzIPJJJ7eH-Fas_vImmq9U-JU/copy?usp=sharing

Do you use video in your classroom?  What do you do?  Please share...always on the hunt for new and better ways to do anything in the classroom.  Thank you!

ISTE 2017

*UPDATE* Here is the link to place a copy of my poster in your Google Drive:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cowNXnDZpa3pJbHOt4lzIPJJJ7eH-Fas_vImmq9U-JU/copy?usp=sharing

Please feel free to share, ask questions, and tag me in ideas!  Thank you!  *UPDATE*

Well I have to say that I am feeling so very excited and grateful!

Last year I attended and presented a poster session at ISTE 2016.  I had attended ISTE 2014 in Atlanta previously.  This year however, I had moved across the country and was starting a new job at a new school (oh how I miss my #collegereadyOH team).  This meant the likelihood of presenting...let alone attending...ISTE 2017 was not great.

I was wrong!

My school has a number of very forward thinking teachers that are not only FANTASTIC at teaching, but are also excited to integrate technology into their daily routines.  They want to reach students in different ways.  They want to make productivity easier for students and they want to provide opportunities for them to explore and learn in a more student centered and creative forum.  They blow my mind daily.  And these teachers wanted to go to ISTE.  So, we sat down about a week before the submissions were due with our principal and said, "What do we do?"  In 30 minutes, we all had ideas for presentations, our principal said "Do It!", and off we set!

December rolled around and that fateful day arrived.  I was obsessively watching my email and Twitter.  I saw tweets starting to talk about going to and presenting at #ISTE2017.  I held my breath and checked my email.  Of course it just had me go to the ISTE website.

Well by this point I had to breath.  I'm not a fish.  But my heart was pounding with anticipation...

SUBMISSION ACCEPTED!!!

I jumped out of my seat.  I texted my principal.  I texted the teachers.  I texted my friends from Ohio State.  I texted my mom.  I texted my husband.  (Not in that order necessarily...but possibly.)

I heard back from some of the incredible teachers I work with and they had their submissions picked up TOO!!!

WE'RE GOING TO ISTE 2017!!

I am beyond excited to be going to Texas this summer.  I'm so excited to be able to share the experience that is an overwhelming learning and connecting opportunity with these incredible teachers.  To say that I am blessed is an understatement.  Two years in a row to go with teachers that I want nothing more than to work with and learn from and be able to share what I am so passionate about with others....

I can't even finish that thought I'm so excited.

Will I see you there?  #ISTE2017