Flipping Your Classroom with Canvas
Created by Knewton
More Information About Flipped Classrooms
7 Things You Should Know About Flipped Classrooms
The Flipped Class: Myth vs. Reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc
Use Canvas to Flip Your Classroom
Step 1: Organize and add content to your Canvas course:
- Create a module for each unit or chapter.
- Create a page for each lesson.
- Embed or link the content for the lesson on the page.
- Add any questions for them to consider.
Step 2: Have students access Canvas and watch the videos or read the content for homework.
Step 3: Spend 10-15 minutes toward the beginning of class discussing and answering questions about the video or reading assigned for homework.
Step 4: Spend the remainder of class time in guided or independent practice with the skills presented for homework and engaged in learning activities that build on the content covered for homework.
Holding students accountable for watching the videos for homework:
- Have students take notes on the videos as part of their homework. Spot check the notes during class or during your self-start.
- Have students copy all of the problems presented in the video and turn those in.
- Create a Canvas quiz with a few questions about the material that the students need to answer.
- (Students without Internet access at home are able to use our library computers.)
Ease Into It!
- Have videos available for students to use for review or if they missed class.
- Use a video tutorial rather than a lecture during a class.
- Flip one lesson.
- Flip one unit.
Resources Already Available to Flip Your Classroom
There is already a lot of content out there. You don't have to recreate the wheel. Use content someone else has created and shared.
General/Multiple Content Areas:
- Safari Montage - safari.graniteschools.org
- HippoCampus - http://www.hippocampus.org/?user=myUEN (go through Pioneer Library)
- Includes video presentations, work examples, simulations, and test prep
- Math, science, social studies, and English
- Teachers can create playlists, customize content, and share with students
- Khan Academy - www.khanacademy.org
- All content areas
- Interactive challenges and assessments for students
- Teachers can see what their students are learning and doing
Math:
- Dr. Phil's Math Videos
- HCCMathHelp YouTube Channel
- ExamSolutions YouTube Channel
- Media4Math YouTube Channel
Vodcasting - Creating & Posting Your Own Tutorial Videos
While there are many videos already out there, when you're ready you may want to experiment with creating and sharing your own video tutorials. That way you can customize them to fit your needs and personalize them for your students. Here are a few tools you can choose from to create and share your tutorials.
Creating:
- Interwrite Workspace Record and Playback Feature
- Educreations - http://www.educreations.com/
- Create tutorials on your computer or on your iPad for free
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_bZcWMx3WU
- Screencast-o-Matic - http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
- Free, online screencast tool
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPCMtW12EA
- Adobe Presenter
- Granite has a license for it for every teacher. We just need to install it.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQaXx01r4Gg
Sharing
- Upload directly to Canvas
- Instructions: Instructure Guide: How do I Upload a Video Using the Rich Content Editor?
- Pros: private, easy (it's going there anyway)
- Cons: can't share with other teachers, size limit
- Upload to YouTube
- Instructions: How to Upload Videos to YouTube
- Pros: easy, easy to share, easy to embed into Canvas
- Cons: very public, ads
- Upload to Safari Montage
- Instructions: Safari Montage Creation Station User Guide
- Pros: not public, easy to share with others in the school/district
- Cons: not quite as easy to embed into Canvas