Flip your Classroom

Website:  TedEd- Flipped Lesson on Time

Cost: FREE
Rating by Jules~ 5 Star

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Device: Across Platform

Rated:  Social Studies

Here is a great Ted Ed Lesson that is already flipped for you to share with your class on the topic: How did trains standardize time in the United States? by- William Heuisler. One of our teachers uses this video in the beginning of the school year when they discuss westward expansion. This is a great lesson because the kids can watch and answer questions and re-watch if needed to properly answer questions. It is also awesome for teachers because it literally takes a couple of seconds to flip it as it is already designed with questions (and answers). Teachers can add more questions and/or delete questions as needed. As always with Ted Ed, if the students use their login then the teacher can track the results!
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Website:  Screencast-O-Matic

Cost: FREE
Rating by Jules~ 5 Star

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Device: PC

Rated: Everyone
Materials Needed:  Java on your computer, Microphone if you plan to talk in the video



This is one of my favorite websites for creating professional development videos.  I create all my "how to" videos from this site.  It is one of the more user friendly sites available without having to download anything to your computer.  Simply click on the "Start Recording" button at the top and the screen of your computer is instantly trasformed into the background for your video.  I loved this website because I can record whatever I want to teach or show someone and save the file right to my computer (which is my choice most of the time), publish directly to Screencast-O-Matic (limited space) or publish right to YouTube.  Screencast gives the option to save at MP4 (Quicktime), AVI (windows media), FLV (Flash) or GIF (Animated gif) and it gives a full set of options for the size of the file.  This is a great option again for teaching anything you would like for people to have options for rewatching or being able to pause and/or rewind to follow along.  Great for the teacher flipping the classroom or even the student creating a "teach me" presentation.  Give it a try - you won't be disappointed.
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Website: Kahoot 
Website URL:  http://getkahoot.com/ 
Cost: FREERating by Jules~ 4 Star

Difficulty Level: Easy 3rd-12th Grades

Device: PC, Tablet, Phone

Very cool website for teachers to gain quick access for understanding of material.  I love this website because Teachers can access the kahoot via the cloud.  That means they can create quizzes and/or surveys in the cloud no matter where they are located.  This website is a online Game Based Response system (comparable to Socrative).  It can be easily accessed by phones, tablets or pcs- all of which the student so badly want to use.  Once the quizzes/surveys are created the kids will receive instant feeback to the questions they answer.  They receive points for questions answered and more points for the student that answers with the correct answer the quickest.  Logging in is very simple, they can access the quizzes with a pin by visiting https://kahoot.it/#/ and/or they can also get a login to track their results. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Website:  http://ed.ted.com/

Cost: FREE

Rating by Jules~ 4 Stars (some technical difficulty with IE9- Chrome it works perfectly)

Difficulty Level:  Intermediate

Device:  PC

Browser recommendation:  Chrome

Rated:  For Upper Level Students 5th-12th

Check out this lesson I flipped on Sacajawea

When you hear Ted Ed most teachers think about the inspirational talk on Ted Talks.  This website is somewhat related to the Ted Talks, but it is specially designed for the Teacher "Flipping the Classroom". During the Summer of 2013, I taught our High School teachers how to use this site.  You can virtually flip any video that is on Youtube, add questions for your students to answer and assuming your students have logins, you receive their results in your TED-Ed. teacher portal.  Students only need a login if you want to track their results.  I truly believe that this is a super resource for supplemental teaching.  Check out the video that I flipped on Sacajawea.  This site is very user friendly and has recommendations for the best flips that have already been made (with questions already created) by other teachers that you can quickly use.  Have Fun!