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Flipped Classroom

Getting bogged down in delivering content? Are you suffering from ‘Power-pointlessness’? Wanting to flip your classroom but don’t know how? Here’s three posts that will walk you through it. Part 1 – Why flip; Part 2 – Tools you will need; Part 3 – Making your first screencast.

60 Non-Threatening Formative Assessment Techniques

by TeachThought Staff. As frequently as a chef needs to check a sauce for taste, teachers should check for understanding. These can be formal-formative or summative assessment, multiple choice, short answer, essay, matching, and related iconic “test” forms. But they can also be informal-conversations, gallery walks, sketches, and more.

Tips, Tricks and Traps

KAMAR iPhone/Android Application 

If you didn’t know, KAMAR has both an iOS and Android app that you can load on your phone. Has basically look up functionality – great for use on duty when you think a student is not given their correct name (never happens does it….). Also really great for taking the register in class, in my experience it is quicker to access that loading KAMAR on the laptop. Click the link to get to the KAMAR page which has links to the apps.

20 Youtube channels for Educators

YouTube = Learning at Your Fingertips! When you want to learn something new these days, most of us head over to YouTube. You can learn just about anything on YouTube: how to fix your dryer, how to create a blog, or how to use Google Docs. Here’s some recommended channels for Educators.

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Things that make you go hmmmm….

Transient Attention

Has the mainstreaming of short ‘snaps’ of information transformed the way students process information? Think of the popularity of Twitter (140 characters), Vine (6 seconds of video), Snapchat and the like. Do students avoid digesting lengthy sources of information so that they can gain greater insight into complexity.