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On September 11, 2001 the attacks on the United States changed the course of my teaching (as well as other things). My school was within the World Trade Center ("Ground Zero") area and had to evacuate.

The school had to setup temporary classrooms in a school in Brooklyn until we were able to return to our own building in Manhattan in October of that year. Academically, it was a terrible scenario. The school day was drastically altered to accommodate the the thousands of students who now had to share the Brooklyn structure with a few thousand other students. Can you imagine a high school building with a student population from 7 to 9 thousand students (and 650 staff members)?

Class time was cut to a paltry 15 minutes, when the normal time was 42 minutes. This forced me to delve into the creation of a website to disseminate subject content and materials on a 24/7 basis. In the ten years that have elapsed, my online presence has expanded as have my goals. Tech4Classrooms is the 'umbrella' entity for all my academic/ professional efforts. It branches off into my classroom as 'World History Review', while the rest focuses on the teacher's general academic needs. While the worldhistoryreview.org website is huge, well-developed and heavily used, the Tech4Classroom website & blog have not had the same attention from me. I just can't find the time to dedicate to it's growth. So it is now (Jan. 2012) still not operational. The Tech4Classrooms Twitter site (@Tech4Classrooms) is fully functional and has been for some time. I hope to have all these resources populated with the voluminous materials that are available, but not well-known or fully tested. This is my story and I'm sticking with it.

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Technology Bits Bytes & Nibbles. History Tech. Web Security. Tech 4 Classrooms. T4C Newspaper. Flipped Classroom Resources. How A Flipped Classroom Actually Works [Interview] What happens when the students have more control in the classroom? Flipped classrooms are being tested out around the world and we’ve featured a few examples in case you wanted to see who is flippin’ out. Until now, we didn’t have an in-depth look at the effects of a flipped classroom or answers to the big questions it raises. Thanks to Susan Murphy of Algonquin College (check out her awesome blog suzemuse.com !) , we have our answers. She was kind enough to answer some of my questions about her experiences flipping her classroom. She used the flipped classroom model for her First Year Video and Audio Production class which is part of the Interactive Multimedia Developer program. The course was this past Fall and ran from September to December.

What inspired you to use the flipped classroom model? One of the big challenges I was having in my video production class was teaching the required software (Adobe Premiere Pro). I wasn’t sure if it was going to work – but I had to give it a shot! Teacher Web Tools. iPad Integration.

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