World History
- Flipping And Grouping To A Better Learning Environment
Two days ago my county's deputy superintendent spent part of a period with one of my classes. He was curious how we were doing with our Chromebooks. One of my students said something like she really liked the class because "We live in...
- Fcps Personalized Learning In-service
I am giving a hands on presentation at Fairfax County, VA's Advanced Academic Institute at South County HS from 8:30 - 11:30. If you work for FCPS and would like to sign up go into MyPLT and type in summer into the search box and the AAP courses...
- What To Flip In A Flipped Class
This is adapted from my book, Deeper Learning Through Technology: How to Use the Cloud to Individualize Instruction, which comes out on the 27th (and you can pre-order now). WHAT TO FLIP IN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM To...
- Kahn Academy - Sat Prep
Time will tell if the SAT is being dumbed down or going to become a much better reflection of learning in high schools today. Either way if kids want to do well on them, they need to use Kahn Academy's site which you can find here. But...
- Kahn Academy's Smart History
I just found the Kahn Academy's "Smart History," which was started in 2005 and has now been quite well populated with both history and videos. It started as an art history website, but has grown to be a nice history book or sorts with summaries,...
World History
Sal Kahn's Tips on Flipping Your Class
Sal Kahn has put together a ten minute video on what he believes is important in making his videos. His tips include
- be yourself (my students love when I put in personal items)
- don't make it too professional
- talk directly to the students (not too far above or below the students' intellect)
- use colors and visuals (but not too fancy)
- Keep the video under ten minutes
- I would add that you should either have your PowerPoint points cued up or even better have a number of webpages ready with perhaps images, sounds, major points etc. that are lined up and ready to go. Kahn says (and I agree), do not script it out beforehand. You do not have to be perfect.
We have a lot of posts on flipping your classes which you can find by going to the search engine in the upper left.
- Flipping And Grouping To A Better Learning Environment
Two days ago my county's deputy superintendent spent part of a period with one of my classes. He was curious how we were doing with our Chromebooks. One of my students said something like she really liked the class because "We live in...
- Fcps Personalized Learning In-service
I am giving a hands on presentation at Fairfax County, VA's Advanced Academic Institute at South County HS from 8:30 - 11:30. If you work for FCPS and would like to sign up go into MyPLT and type in summer into the search box and the AAP courses...
- What To Flip In A Flipped Class
This is adapted from my book, Deeper Learning Through Technology: How to Use the Cloud to Individualize Instruction, which comes out on the 27th (and you can pre-order now). WHAT TO FLIP IN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM To...
- Kahn Academy - Sat Prep
Time will tell if the SAT is being dumbed down or going to become a much better reflection of learning in high schools today. Either way if kids want to do well on them, they need to use Kahn Academy's site which you can find here. But...
- Kahn Academy's Smart History
I just found the Kahn Academy's "Smart History," which was started in 2005 and has now been quite well populated with both history and videos. It started as an art history website, but has grown to be a nice history book or sorts with summaries,...