The 8-Bit Instructor: Flipping Your Classroom (EP021)

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Episode 21

In this week’s episode, we take a look at flipped classrooms. Plus, updates from Formative, Flipgrid, Pear Deck, Microsoft, and Google; this week’s treasure chest; and, of course, your question of the week.

News & Updates

• Formative Updates
  • Move formatives without going back to the dashboard
  • Alerts when students change their answers (Premium feature)
  • Social Studies assessments
  • Google Image search (add images to questions, text blocks, Show Your Work backgrounds)
  • RichText format automatically adds links
  • Link Formative to existing Google Classrooms
• Flipgrid Updates
  • Sync Google Classroom rosters
  • Mic only mode
  • Shorts – add titles, search through the Shorts library, and quickly copy links to videos
  • Batch actions from student lists
  • Time stamp videos in comments
  • Selfies and nametags for covers
• Pear Deck Shared Teacher Dashboard
  • Share session controls and student insights with other educators
  • Invite other educators and give them access to everything you have
• Microsoft Office 365 Education is free to eligible students and teachers
• Google
  • Some Google Meet settings now “sticky” for Education users
  • Improving search in Google Drive on Android and iOS
  • Use Macro Converter add-on to convert Microsoft Excel files with macros to Google Sheets
  • Create and work with documents that contain multiple page orientations in Google Docs

Treasure Chest: Canva for Educators

• Apply for a Canva for Education to get access to more features
• Create classes for student projects

Boss Battle: Flipping Your Classroom

• Why flip?
  • High-level students get bored
  • Struggling students get lost
  • Flipped classes allow more 1:1 time
  • More time to apply learning
• Easy to implement in all content areas
• Common Hurdles
  • Limited access
  • Students not completing videos
• Tools to get you started
  • Edpuzzle – Add multiple choice and written response questions to videos
  • Screencastify – record your own screencasts
  • Flipgrid – Upload video responses to a grid
  • Google Forms
  • Pear Deck – Create interactive student Slides for Google Slides
• Think about flipping the instructor as well

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QOTW: What’s your favorite way to rest and recharge on breaks?

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Credits

Music by David Fesliyan (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/)

• Intro/Outro: “Retro Platforming”
• Boss Battle: “Boss Battle Rock”
• Crew Member’s Board: “Pirate Dance”
• Wrap up: “Game Over” by Patrick de Arteaga

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