If you’re concerned that students won’t really view video material before class, you can quiz them while they’re watching and have the results automatically scored and sent to you in a tidy spreadsheet. Some popular tools, like TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio, make it easy to embed quizzes in lesson videos.
When you set up in-video quizzing, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions are available. The benefit of the first two options is that it’s an automated, instant measurement. The advantage of the short answer option is the ability to assess beyond initial completion and understanding, and also to ask more inquiry-based questions (which can provide a nice segue into class discussion the following day).
In addition to letting students learn at their own pace, in-video quizzing provides a quick snapshot of areas that need more attention across the entire class. With the results from each quiz, you can adjust lesson plans and classroom discussion, group students based on need, and identify necessary one-on-one work with students. This information also can be relayed to parents to share specifics about what a student is struggling to process and their homework habits.
While in-video quizzing is one of the most recent and fun things I’ve discovered lately, it is by no means the only element of flipped classrooms that offers advantages. If you would like to find more ideas for turning your classes into a flipped model, I’ve found The Flipped Learning Network to be a great source for resources and events, and Edudemic highlights their 10 recommended tools for flipped classrooms.
Stacey Roshan is a math teacher at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. At the 2013 Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference, hosted by November Learning in Boston, Mass., July 21-26, she will present two sessions on flipped learning: “Making Video Instruction a Less Passive Experience” and “Learning Should Feel Like Play: Reducing Student Anxiety Levels Through the Flipped Model.” For more information about the conference and to register, go to http://novemberlearning.com/blc.
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