You can also see the collaborative session notes from other attendees here.
Wednesday was my crazy presenting day. I had a session, one off, a session, lunch, a session, one off... I am looking forward to being able to check out the archives of all the ones I missed!
Session C - Showcase for Sophia Learning - Free Resources for Flipped Classes
- Resources - Playlist and Slides
- I had a great time working with about 10 teachers and teaching them how to make a Sophia tutorial and make/embed Google Forms.
Session D -
Will have to catch on the archive. It's a little crazy trying to deal with escrow paperwork while at a conference!
Keynote #3 - Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams
Jon and Aaron shared about how flipped learning is really about the intersection between content, curiosity, and relationships. You really need all three. Content is still important (some people believe that students should have free reign over what they learn, but I believe that most students don't necessarily know what they don't know). Curiosity is also important - sometimes we get so stuck on keeping students in a box with our "prescribed content" and not letting them explore. But most importantly, good teaching is about relationships and that is the glue that will help make everything else more meaningful and rich.
Six of us also got to share for a few minutes each. The focus of the stories were on the intersection of Content (Steve, Kristin, April), Curiosity (me and Tom), and Relationships (Delia).
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Session E - WSQing your way to #FlipClass Success
- Resources and Slides
- Pre-Conference Sessionwork and Responses
I had an amazing time sharing with everyone about the WSQ. We survived a few technical difficulties, including my #cheesebucket "forgetting to make the collaborative GDoc public and the computer being too slow to change it during the presentation". We started off with Kahoot! which worked fairly well (I was a little worried with the network and the virtual) and gave the audience an idea of how I might start off my class.
I hope what stuck out in people's minds was that the WSQ is just a tool that I have created that helps me to:
- Organize content and materials
- Hold students accountable for actually watching
- Give structured processing time
- Gather feedback from students
- Prepares for and facilitates discussion among students during class time
There are a lot of different ways you can achieve those goals, and the WSQ is what I've found works for me. Most importantly, those five purposes allow class time to be a more effective learning environment, more engaging for all learners, and more enjoyable to be in. I hope that everyone who attended is able to take a slice of what I shared to use in their classes.
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Touchcast interview
You see mine here. Go "back" and "forward" to see lots of others!
Session F- Student created videos
I was able to catch the 2nd half of Stacy and Eric's session on student-created videos. I am still in awe that Eric's students make these videos purely out of choice, with no extra credit given. I'm not sure why my students make such a big deal out of them (still)... it might simply be because it is so new to them and that = scary.
I asked Stacy how many videos her students make and she said about 8 per year. So, that's about 1 per month. I think that's a good amount to not get overwhelming but still have students do them enough to improve in making them and see the process getting easier so they can focus on the content.
Closing - FlipCon15 is in Michigan!
I wanted to archive the tweets from my session on WSQing, so here they are. You can see the full archive of tweets (thanks to Brian Bennett!) at bit.ly/searchflipcon14
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