I have learned that it is extremely time consuming, tedious and frustrating to create a flipped lesson. I couldn't imagine doing an entire year's worth of curriculum flipped. Oh my word! I'm brain dead after 2 days, what would an entire year do to me, ouch! I'm sure that once my lesson comes to life in the classroom I'll look back on today and realize that the excruciating headache was worth it.
I found on twitter a list of biology animations that I can use throughout the year on various topics. I also found a video of evolution using legos, pretty cool! I think the students will like it, or at least I would hope so. I also found more ideas on pinterest. I must admit though it can be overwhelming the amount of resources you find and the amount of time that goes by as you look through your PLN.
The app I used to create my video was screencast-o-matic. The downloading of the app was fast and easy. The video was easy to use too. This was probably the easiest thing for me to use out of ever app I used. However if you want to edit your video, you must purchase the upgrade. I tried to follow Todd Nesloney's advice of leaving mistakes in, but being my first time using the app and recording myself, I couldn't help myself but to do the videos numerous times over. It was not hard to link the videos to my google site. My only concern is that I couldn't preview the videos because my java script was not updated so we will see how they turn out.
I hope my lesson will target the creativity, communication/collaboration, decision making and technology operations levels.
Creativity: Creating a monster from punnett squares, creating punnett squares on the computer versus pen and paper.
Communication/Collaboration: Students taking a quiz and poll to communicate to me of how well they are understanding the lesson. Sharing their work is a form of communication.
Decision making: Solving punnet square scenarios, deciding what alleles their monster will inherit
Technology Operations: Learning to use google site, google spreadsheet, gosoapbox.com, and awwapp.com
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