During my first year as an AP English Language and Composition instructor, I quickly became frustrated by the amount of time I spent directly delivering information. I was so pedagogically against the "stand and deliver" method of teaching, but my school really wasn't equipped for much more. After that first year, I devoted my summer to finding a way to enhance my classroom in a way that required less me time and more learning time. Thus, my flipped classroom was born.
Lecture Capture resources are an essential tool during Online Instruction because they allow students to hear and see information in an innovative and engaging manner. Students enjoy the classroom feel while working remotely and asynchronously.
In my own classroom, lecture capture made flipping instruction possible. Rather than spending twenty minutes each day lecturing, I vowed to condense the delivery to a 10 minute (or less) video, no more than three times a week. As skeptical as I was of this method, I was blown away by the results. My students were more engaged than ever before, and we were able to spend valuable class time actually writing and editing together, rather than lecturing on core concepts.
Here's an example of one of my very first flipped video from August 2012. I used Prezi and Screencast-o-matic to make it happen. I was so proud of the video at the time, but thankfully my video production skills got better and I eventually started using new tools.
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