Flipgrid is a program that my colleague and I have starting using a little bit in our classrooms. I enjoyed the information read and viewed about the flipped classroom. One of the readings resonated with me immediately. When discussing how his instruction would constantly stop so he can answer a question or explain something to a student, it stops the learning and flow of the lesson, (Watson 2017) I thought this is my classroom. His answer to that is amazing. I have the same situations within my room, several students do not have access to technology at home, so I cannot make flipping my classroom a requirement. Flipping the Flipped classroom has inspired me to do the same. Since reading the article, I have discussed with my teammates and we have plans to make videos of our upcoming topics and some videos about our previous topics. Coming back to Flipgrid, our country makes the application available to our students within our educational platform Canvas. This makes it safe and easy for students to access what we have them complete or view. One activity I did do on Flipgrid recently was record myself teaching a lesson for a substitute teacher. I teach 5th grade, and the substitutes often complain about how hard it is to go over the math with students. I recorded myself teaching the opening and placed it in Canvas so my students were able to access it. Students watched the video and completed the lesson. I do not know why it took me until reading Watson’s article that this is something I should always do for my math lessons. One of the common topics within the readings and videos is that students can work at their own pace, and review the videos as often as necessary until they grasp the concepts.
When looking at the formative assessment tools within this module, I realized that some were familiar to me and some were not. Some of the tools I use often within my classroom for formative assessments. Kahoot is used to review usually before an assessment in science or social studies. I enjoy using them, as well as my students, because it is a good review of their upcoming assessment, and it gives them an idea on what they need to study for. To be honest, that is how I used them. I also use Quizizz with my current students. Quizizz is often used as a review for homework. I will give students the access code and they compete at their own time. That is one reason why I like Quizizz over Kahoot most of the time. When using Kahoot, it is timed and students are competitive. With Quizizz, students can still compete, but I make the time limit 15 minutes so points are based on correct and incorrect answers. One of the formative assessment tools I want to explore based on the video watched is Formative. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQ4V_jk9Rk) After watching the video, and signing up for an account, I plan to introduce this to my students. I love the features if uploading PDFs, and you can have students respond to essay questions. I also like that you can give feedback as well. With Kahoot, teachers can download the student responses to view. I never take this information to heart because of the time limit it puts on students. For slow readers and ESEP students, this can start anxiety with these students and can affect their scores. When viewing the data from Quizizz, I can see how many times a student completed the activity, and the scores from each time. Since I usually set the time limit on for these activities to 15 minutes, the data is more useful to me when viewing progress. I’m looking forward to using Formative with my students and seeing how useful the feedback is. One way I differentiate these tools is when I create assessments for reading groups. This data is used to see how students are comprehending their books we are reading in small groups. Since students are grouped based on Lexile levels, the short formative assessments are used to check student understanding of the books we are reading. The Web 2.0 tools that I use with my students do not offer read to options, which is one reason why I turn the timer off on my Quizizz assignments. I often teach inclusion, and I have students that have read-to accommodations. We have immersive reading programs at school, but I do not know if students are able to have the same at home.
Watson,T.(n.d.).Flipping the Flipped Classroom. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/flipping-flipped-classroom
Education, C. S. (2016, July 12). EdTech Showdown: Kahoot vs. Formative. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQ4V_jk9Rk
When looking at the formative assessment tools within this module, I realized that some were familiar to me and some were not. Some of the tools I use often within my classroom for formative assessments. Kahoot is used to review usually before an assessment in science or social studies. I enjoy using them, as well as my students, because it is a good review of their upcoming assessment, and it gives them an idea on what they need to study for. To be honest, that is how I used them. I also use Quizizz with my current students. Quizizz is often used as a review for homework. I will give students the access code and they compete at their own time. That is one reason why I like Quizizz over Kahoot most of the time. When using Kahoot, it is timed and students are competitive. With Quizizz, students can still compete, but I make the time limit 15 minutes so points are based on correct and incorrect answers. One of the formative assessment tools I want to explore based on the video watched is Formative. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQ4V_jk9Rk) After watching the video, and signing up for an account, I plan to introduce this to my students. I love the features if uploading PDFs, and you can have students respond to essay questions. I also like that you can give feedback as well. With Kahoot, teachers can download the student responses to view. I never take this information to heart because of the time limit it puts on students. For slow readers and ESEP students, this can start anxiety with these students and can affect their scores. When viewing the data from Quizizz, I can see how many times a student completed the activity, and the scores from each time. Since I usually set the time limit on for these activities to 15 minutes, the data is more useful to me when viewing progress. I’m looking forward to using Formative with my students and seeing how useful the feedback is. One way I differentiate these tools is when I create assessments for reading groups. This data is used to see how students are comprehending their books we are reading in small groups. Since students are grouped based on Lexile levels, the short formative assessments are used to check student understanding of the books we are reading. The Web 2.0 tools that I use with my students do not offer read to options, which is one reason why I turn the timer off on my Quizizz assignments. I often teach inclusion, and I have students that have read-to accommodations. We have immersive reading programs at school, but I do not know if students are able to have the same at home.
Watson,T.(n.d.).Flipping the Flipped Classroom. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/flipping-flipped-classroom
Education, C. S. (2016, July 12). EdTech Showdown: Kahoot vs. Formative. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQ4V_jk9Rk
I use a google chromebook so I chose to use Screencastify. Even though I wrote a script, I still needed to restart my project several times which was frustrating, but funny. It was easy to use, but took me a few attempts to find how to pause the recording while sharing. It downloaded easily to my google drive. I also saved it to my onedrive account. One thing I did not notice as a timer that let me know how long I was casting for. I might have missed it, but I was unable to identify it.
I plan to use screencastify when creating lessons for my students on Flipgrid. I plan to create examples of the different math problems and lessons taught throughout the school year and post them for students to review. Since I have a touch screen, I can write on the computer screen and demonstrate how to solve the problems. Another way I plan to use it is to let my students use my computer to explain how they solve math problems and post them as well. Maybe hearing a peer share how they answered the problem will help their understanding. I would also like to create screencast for my peers on how to complete certain tasks on our educational platform Canvas. I will create videos on how to create assignments and modules within the platform and share them with peers to better help them utilize Canvas in their classrooms, which is a big county push right now.
I plan to use screencastify when creating lessons for my students on Flipgrid. I plan to create examples of the different math problems and lessons taught throughout the school year and post them for students to review. Since I have a touch screen, I can write on the computer screen and demonstrate how to solve the problems. Another way I plan to use it is to let my students use my computer to explain how they solve math problems and post them as well. Maybe hearing a peer share how they answered the problem will help their understanding. I would also like to create screencast for my peers on how to complete certain tasks on our educational platform Canvas. I will create videos on how to create assignments and modules within the platform and share them with peers to better help them utilize Canvas in their classrooms, which is a big county push right now.