Podcasting and Reverse ClassroomCaitlin KiltsThe Hewitt SchoolScience Department

Outline of Presentation• Who am I?• What is “Reverse Classroom”?• What is the rationale behind a reverse classroom?• What has the research shown about reverse classrooms?• How do you fit it into your curriculum?• What are the pros/cons of a reverse classroom?• So, how do we do it? Podcasting and designing a class site• Resources

Who am I?

What is “Reverse Classroom”?• Other names: flipped classroom/teaching, reverse

teaching/instruction, backwards classroom, switched classrooms

• Big names in flipping: • Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann (Woodland Park Colorado)• Khan Academy

• Traditional definition: “Class work” is done at home and “homework” is done in class• It IS NOT about replacing teachers with videos• It IS about increasing personalized contact time between teachers

and students (and other students too)• “Sage on the stage” vs. “guide on the side”

What is the rationale behind flipping?• Sams and Bergman: frustration with students leaving early or

being absent• Students missed lectures and couldn’t do homework• Why were lectures during class and problems at home?

• Lecture is a passive activity, so can be done asynchronously and at a distance

• Problem sets, labs, activities need personal, one-on-one interactions• Students need guidance through problems, which is not available

at home

What has the research shown?

• Umass-Boston Study (White, 2009): College Intro to Biology Course• Test Prep• No effect on lecture attendance• Students used podcasts in an educationally sound manner

• Clintondale HS, Detroit (2011): School-wide• Pre-flipping: +50% failed English and 44% failed math with 736

discipline cases in one semester• Post-flipping: 19% failed English and 13% failed math, with 249

discipline cases in one semester.• Urban San Francisco HS (Musallam, 2010): Advanced Chemistry

Course• Multimedia vodcasting shown to significantly decrease intrinsic load

and increase performance on assessments

How do you fit it into your curriculum?• What levels/grades is it useful for?• What classes is it useful for?• Mastery Method• Methods for ensuring that students watch/listen to lectures

Putting it into Practice

http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/

Pros/Cons- Food for Thought• New learning style for students (and teachers)• Students need to actively engage in the lectures• Students need to resist distractions/multitasking • Need a way to hold students accountable for engaging with lectures• Technical Problems/internet availability• Need to use newly freed class time productively• Need time/resources to create vod/podcasts• Determining what lectures should be done in person and which should be done

electronically• Reduces repetitiveness in teaching-load• Issues around grading, since “gradable work” is done in class• Decreases role of parent in “gradable work”• Holistic approach to classes• Instructional challenge of creating short, concise vod/podcasts• Greater time to work individually with students• Potentially boring vod/podcasts

Methods for Creating Screencasts

• Jing and screencast• SnapKast• Tech- Smith's Camtasia Studio• Screen-o-matic

How to Use Jing (TechSmith) and Screencast• Free download: http://www.screencast.com• Free download: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html• Once it’s downloaded, you will now have your little Jing icon

on the top center of your screen:

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Select Recording Area• Click “Capture” icon and slide lines until it encompasses your

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Finish up• Always replay to make sure it worked!• Either upload to screencast or save

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Google Sites• Simply add as a link…

Resources

• Analysis of Students’ Downloading of Online Audio Lecture Recordings in a Large Biology Lecture Course http://intro.bio.umb.edu/BW/PodcastingFinal.pdf

• An online community for teachers using flipped classroom http://vodcasting.ning.com/ • Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann’s site http://learning4mastery.com/• Dissertation on Multimedia Vod/Podcasting http://

www.flipteaching.com/resources/Dissertation_Musallam.pdf • Other references:

• http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/08/09/vodcasting.aspx?sc_lang=en• http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php• http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-what-does-a-good-one-look-like-692.p

hp• http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2010/09/flip-your-classroom-through-reverse.html• http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/08/09/vodcasting.aspx?sc_lang=en• http://www.flippedclassroom.com/• http://

www.thedailyriff.com/articles/teachers-doing-the-flip-to-help-students-become-learners-531.php

• http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/09/the-flipped-classroom-defined/• http://educationnext.org/the-flipped-classroom/• http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-

full-picture/