#michED Summer Chats Are Here! | #michED Eager for more of the same great positive collaboration and communication that the #michED chat gave educators and students across Michigan this last school year? Well we’re back! Starting Wednesday, June 25th we’re starting up the summer chat schedule. We’ve got a great list of moderators lined up from around the state, with more podcasts on the way as well. The #michED chat is an effort to share great ideas and create a positive environment for change, decoupled from the current politics surrounding the education reform movement in Michigan. All #michED chats are on Wednesdays @ 8 pm EST I hope everyone has been having a terrific summer, and is working hard to make next school year even better!
Mme-Dill - home edcampnomi - home Foreign Language Resources from the Flip Class Conference 2012 | Reflipping the flipped The fifth annual flip class conference started yesterday, June 19th, and will continue and finalize today, June 20th. As you already know, I am in Ukraine at the moment and found it a bit difficult to attend the conference physically in Chicago, bummer! Fortunately, it is streamed live and so I am attending it on the “flip side” (as I saw someone calling it on Twiter). So, before we go on with the “Flip Class Stages“, I want to share these awesome Flip Conference 2012 goodies Since it’s keynote introduction, I have been frantically sharing tweets with ideas, resources, tools, best practices, flippers, etc. Preliminary messages The flip class conference this year has 24 presenters, compared to 8 from last year. Opening keynote session: “Student-driven Learning in the Flipped Classroom” Brian Bennett (@bennettscience) did an amazing job opening the conference. “Start the change with the physical space. Managing the Flipped Classroom Using Google Apps Flipping French: A Middle School Experience
Commit to 14 Hours of PD As the summer draws to a close, your calendar is likely packed with Back-to-School events and classroom preparation. However, I’m going to challenge you to prioritize something else during this crazy time of year: YOUR PERSONALIZED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PLAN. And while other things might seem more important right now, the research proves otherwise. Just last month, the Center for American Progress released a report on the status of professional learning in U.S. Schools. That’s because the types of professional development offered to teachers are often poorly designed. Research shows that effective professional development must: 1) Identify a topic. 2) Find resources. 3) Actively commit to 14 hours of learning and on-the-job experimentation. Professional learning makes our classrooms better places for students. Photo Credit: by Terry McCombs
4 Ways Flipping Forces Fundamental Change - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - edchat, edreform, flipped classroom Email Share June 14, 2012 - by Susan Lucille Davis 0 Email Share Photo Courtesy of Flickr: kkimpel I generally like the idea of turning things upside-down if only to see what happens as a result. Flip #1: When and where should learning happen? At its core, flipping the classroom forces us to question the who-what-where-when-and-why of what we do. Flip #2: Why are we lecturing anyway? Too many teachers have confessed to me that they lecture because that’s what they think teaching is, or they lecture because the students won’t read assigned textbook selections and they have to deliver the content somehow (ironically, transferring one boring method of delivery into another). So, why do we feel compelled to do something that we know we do – let’s admit it – rather badly? Flip #3: How can we partner with parents? Let’s face it. Flip #4: Why not be more transparent? Flipping the classroom forces us to reckon with this kind of completely naked exposure of our teaching selves.
2013 Technology Conference – Registration is OPEN | Center for Teaching and Technology The 30th Annual MSU College of Education Technology conference will be held on Saturday, November 16th, 2013 on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University in Erickson Hall from 8:30 am – 3:00 pm. The theme of this year’s conference is online and mobile education. Through a continued collaboration between the College of Education, the MSU College of Education Alumni Association and the Master of Arts in Educational Technology Program, this year’s conference will be FREE OF CHARGE to all attendees. Light breakfast items will be available before the keynote. For information about the morning concurrent sessions and afternoon workshops, visit the conference website. Featured Presenter The featured presentation at 9 a.m. will be given by Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Registration is now open! Follow this link to get started with registration.
FlippedPD Why Every Teacher Should Use Twitter | #michED Twitter, a brief video introduction If you consider yourself a “visual learner,” this brief video introduction to Twitter for Teachers may help. Follow the link here. I already have a Facebook account, why would I want to become involved on Twitter? Twitter isn’t Facebook. “Teachers love to hear practical tips and strategies from others teachers. I’m a teacher. There is a common impression that Twitter is the place where Facebook content is posted with fewer characters. So how does Twitter work for teachers? There is an incredible network of hundreds of thousands of teachers on Twitter. “Over the course of a career, this exposure may mean the difference between being a slightly above average teacher and a teacher bordering on mastery.” But I don’t have enough time for Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have to be the time-sucking-monster some believe it to be. Where to Start Begin by searching for educational related hashtags (those funny tags that always start with #). Twitter Chats Like this:
The foreign language flip class stages. Part 1 | Reflipping the flipped Looking back at the flipping and blending I have done in my Spanish class and refle cting on the process, I thought it would make things easier if you have a set of stages that you can follow to work on your flipped classes and to organize and pace yourselves more accurately. I know some will be using the summer to work on planning next year’s flipped class, so I hope this helps….Here it goes… The process of flipping a class consists primarily of four “stages”: The Harvesting Stage.The Washing, peeling, chopping Stage.The Let’s get cooking Stage.The Digesting Stage. Emilia’s foreign language flip class stages Taking it one stage at a time, let’s start with the “Harvesting Stage” The Harvesting Stage is where you will CYOFF (Create Your Own Flip Formula), which we already talked about in the post Behold the Foreign Language Class Formula. Ingredients:Flip class articles, blogs, videos, webinars, examples, tutorials, ideas. To recap: Flipped instruction (reverse instruction): Image Credit