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Flipped Classroom: Engaging Students with EdPuzzle

Catlin Tucker

The flipped classroom model is a blended learning strategy I use to present my vocabulary , writing, and grammar instruction online. Students watch videos at home where they can control the pace of their learning, then they come to class prepared to apply that information in collaborative student-centered activities.

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Edit and Share Videos Like a Rock Star

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In fact, knowledge is often acquired via audio, video, role-playing, and other approaches that address the varied learning styles of today’s students. One communication method that has seriously grown up from even a generation ago is video. Let’s start with five clever video edit/format tools: EdPuzzle. Vialogues .

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In Love with Space? Here are Great Websites to Take You There

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Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. This four-minute video discusses the sounds recorded by NASA spacecraft coming from our planet, Earth. Earthrise –the first time it’s recorded; a video. – See more at: [link].

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

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It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. Teacher notes on resources can include images or videos as well as text.

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Tech Ed Resources–Organize Your Class

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Do you wonder how to set up an effective, exciting, motivating classroom to teach tech? It’s not difficult–but there are steps you must take that are different from a grade-level or subject-specific classroom. Flipped classroom. To inform your decisions about tech in the classroom. Grading technology. Backchannels.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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The engaging video summaries of textbook material provide access to more than a thousand full-length college courses. Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. Great stuff. Things to know.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

In order to give each staff member a greater level of autonomy, I removed all top-down mandates such as keeping a log and watching a certain number of PD 360 videos. Throughout the year they met to develop extensive binders to compile resources related to text complexity as outlined by the Common Core Standards.