Video Topics for My Reading and Writing Classroom

  • Essay Writing
  • Narratives
  • Selecting a Scene
  • Brainstorming Ideas
  • Being Persuasive
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Best Tools for Flipping Your Classroom

Save yourself time by learning from my own grief in wrestling around with which tools work and which don’t for recording the videos for your online lessons.

I have collated all the items you need to make this a relatively painless process so that you can spend more time on developing rich, useful content for your students.

The list of items you need:

    • Computer (Either PC or Apple)
    • Microphone
    • Video Recording and Processing Software
    • HD Webcam
    • Video Optimizer
    • Website to post final materials

Microphone: Blue Microphones Snowball USB Microphone (Brushed Aluminum)

Video Recording and Processing Software: Camtasia Studio 8

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Goals for Topics

Topics to Cover

  • The end goal is to make students independent learners
  • Flipping effectively requires student-centered learning
  • A model for flipping the ESL Reading & Writing Classroom
  • What is a flipped Classroom
  • Resources for flipping the classroom
  • List of Tools I use to flip my classroom
  • Designing practice activities in the classroom
  • Mastering reading skills
  • Mastering writing skills
  • Others having effective flipping — Karl Fisch, Dan Meyer, Shelley Wright
  • “Flipped Mindset”

 

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