1. I really enjoyed the video and the website is amazing. I shared it with our math and science teachers in the district. Flipping a classroom definitely emphasizes all the educational buzzwords such as, "differentiated learning," "self-paced" and "peer-to-peer" teaching! What a great concept and it would be awesome for education, parents, and teachers if this would happen, even on a small scale. Education, is and always has been, rote memorization of facts, lectures, worksheets, tests, and experiments. I completely agree with the video that teachers are more concerned with covering the material than actually making sure the students understand the basics. I have tried to incorporate some elements of a flipped classroom. My assginments are on Moodle. I incorporate multiple videos and discussion forums for students to talk with each other and learn from one another. I would like my classes to be more self-paced like an online MVHS course. They offer Flex courses where there are not specific deadlines, but all the work must be completed within a 90-day time frame. I have tried to do things like that on a smaller scale, but students choose to play games on the computer and hand things in a few days before the deadline. Since I am in the face-to-face classroom with them, it is difficult for me to allow them to be wasting their time and not working at a steady pace.
2. Loved it! I used Screencast-o-matic to create my recording of how to create a catalog in Microsoft Word. How fun was that!? I have watched zillions of how-to videos on Lynda.com and on VTC.com. Some were awesome and educational and some were distracting and annoying. I do not like when people ramble on without showing me how to do something. I think I did a decent job for my first time doing something like this.
3. My screen cast is at http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/clevYjg8g
4. Ok, now I feel deflated. I did show a few teachers that I work with and they thought I did sound knowledgeable, but they said I moved the mouse around too much. I didn't realize that the colored circles follow me around the screen. I did record a few times and tried to minimize moving my mouse around so much, but that's a hard habit to break. I usually frantically move my mouse around when I am demonstrating so the students can see where I am on the projection screen. I could tell that I was doing it while I was recording, but I didn't want to start over because I thought I had some Microsoft Word Masterpiece...until others critiqued me.....They said the speed was decent. I really made a conscious effort to speak slowly because I know I talk really fast. My students tell me to slow down so I was happy to hear that my critics thought my speed was acceptable.
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