Record it!

I finally did it! I recorded my first lecture for my flipped classroom trial. My goal this school year is to try out the flipped classroom for some of my class periods in the hopes that I can implement it all next year.

I'll admit, it was overwhelming figuring out what to do first. I decided to pick our next topic in class and record over the PowerPoint lecture. That was a bit strange too trying to speak into the slides with no real audience in front of you was intimidating. Once I did that (short and sweet about 10 mins) I uploaded the file to Edmodo where the students had access to the notes. I also posted 2 questions for the students to answer on Edmodo based on the lecture to hold them accountable for taking the notes at home. I ran into some issues of course: 

1. Some students didn't do it at home. Period. But it was a smaller number than I thought. 

2. Some students ran into issues watching the notes because the file was too large. 

So those students that had a hard time taking the notes or did not do it, used in class tha lets to take the notes while the other students completed an interesting lab. Of course the students were working hard on the notes to finish and not be left out of the lab. The next time I did notes online I had more students complete the task. I also used something new called office mix. I really enjoyed this add on to the Microsoft office 2016. The add on lets you record directly onto the slides with a screen capture and you can put quiz questions into the slides!! One of my favorites. However, I always run into issues. Students had to be logged into their county accounts and Edmodo in order to answer the questions in the PowerPoint to receive credit. It might work well if no questions are included in the PowerPoint and just make it a public office mix for them to watch. 

Example photos coming soon! Stay tuned!

**Update!**

Here is a link to the recorded lessons I created and had my students take notes on. If anyone has any pointers, please let me know! :)

Chapter 14.1 - structure of an atom

Office Mix Powerpoint Lecture - Chapter 15.1