Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Introductions
Hi everybody, I'm Paul Montbriand and I will be your guide for this workshop. This is my 8th year as a teacher, 2nd at the International School of Islamabad. In addition to 3 years teaching chemistry and physics in the U.S.A. I have spent 5 years teaching DP chemistry while picking up DP physics upon arrival in Islamabad. My interest in flipping started with an interest in educational technology. After exploring all the ways ed-tech could help me save paper and free up class time for authentic assessments I decided to do a complete flip. At first I was concerned about the large amount of front-loading I would have to do in preparation, but I was also excited about the possibilities, such as ease of differentiated instruction, which opened up as a result. I sincerely look forward to working with all of you and hope that you will find this workshop useful.
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ReplyDeleteI'm Martyn Nayman and i'm head of languages at Nexus International School in Malaysia. Have been teaching for 14 years and have always used IT. I have a number of blogs (now fairly outdated!) and I have created our French and Spanish websites using Google sites. I've been experimenting with flipping for the last couple of years and want to see if a) i'm doing it right and b) if there are better ways to flip than i'm already doing. A resource I will be looking into, time permitting, is Zaption which allows you to upload youtube vids and stop them and insert quizzes or questions etc. See you on Wednesday!
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ReplyDeleteI am Angela wu and I am head of Chinese in Nexus international school in Singapore. Have been teaching 16 years and try to use IT in Chinese class. I am using schoology and Google Sites to help students to learn Chinese. I learn flipping in Schoology, and I want to try this to help Chinese teacher out of different levels in Chinese classroom. I am beginner, I need to learn from all of you.
Greetings, I am a Primary School Principal at Vientiane International School in Laos. As an administrator in the Primary Years Programme of the IB. I have been interested in the nascent attempts we have made as a school to front-load activities for students (aged 10) to access at home. This has met with mixed results. Some activities have been only partially successful with a minority of students accessing the YouTube clips. Is this a problem with having an emerging culture of flipped classrooms?? Is it lack of clarity when setting the task? Is it lack of clarity of purpose amongst the teachers? Whatever the reason the follow up activities were diluted in their effectiveness as a result.
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ReplyDeleteI am Sarah Hill and I am the Head of MFL and EAL at Victoria Shanghai Academy in Hong Kong. This is my 10th year teaching and when it comes to flipping the classroom, I am a complete novice! All teachers at our school have their own websites and some colleagues have begun to make and upload videos. However, as yet there has been no clear drive to get flipping off the ground as a whole-school approach. I have been asked to lead a Professional Learning Group session on flipping the classroom so I am very keen to learn from all of you! I also think that flipping could be a really useful tool for my EAL role as, at present, all EAL provision is extra-curricular and it would be great if the students were able to access videos in their own time instead of trying to find time to see me during the day. See you tomorrow!