I just love working with teachers. I often am the one who is supposed to be the trainer at a workshop or professional development session and I come out as the student. When teachers get together and share, sparks fly. This week I was in Ottawa with an amazing group of curriculum coaches who showed me so many great websites, techniques and integration ideas, but training partner reference a “flipped” classroom and gave credit to Lodge McCammon. I told her that I thought it was Kahn Academy that gave us the “flip” classroom, but tonight I revisit Lodge McCammon’s site and found his version of the “flip” classroom. Thanks, Clare! A flip classroom encourages the students to watch videos for at homework that introduce new concepts (the lecture) and then come to school to do the homework in class while the teacher is present to help. Lodge McCammon is the master at making video simple and I was especially excited to write about him tonight because he is the keynote a the DEN event at the pre-conference for FETC. Can’t wait!
A creative website
This week’s creative website is FIZZ from the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. Project Director, Dr. Lodge McCammon has created a simple, yet profound way of producing one-take videos he calls, paperslide videos. I have introduced them to many of my colleagues before and had the privilege of teaching the process. What an “ah-ha” moment for teachers when they see that creating instructional videos does not have to be a huge process with massive equipment and the time constraints of a classroom. Dr. Lodge has developed a teaching and professional development process called FIZZ which encourages and models best practices in implementing user-generated video and online publishing in the classroom to enhance standards-based lessons. He is also a studio composer who writes standards-based songs, with supporting materials, about advanced curriculum for K-12 classrooms. More information, user-generated videos, and songs can be found at Lodge's website (www.iamlodge.com). A wonderful little nugget that I found on Lodge’s website was an animated translation of a Sir Ken Robinson keynote called Sir Ken, Again. Hope you get a chance to check it out!
A proverb
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!” Margaret Meade
An encouragement
Our students are hungry to be more digital in the classroom. We know it and seek ways to incorporate technology and engagement for a better learning environment. Lodge McCammon focuses all his energies on just that. I would really encourage you to check out samples of paper slide videos (I have one in the next section and you can “Google” paperslide videos to find many examples besides Lodge’s website. Most of all, I would like to encourage you to try them with your students. Stephanie did and wrote a tremendous blog (Simply Stephanie) on “Lesson Learned.” Be sure to read it before you start a project. She will save you tons and steps and time. Her steps are much more detailed than mine below, so be sure to check them out if you are serious.
How do you do that?
The basics of a paperslide video include groups of three: one narrator, one videographer and one paper slider. The object is to create a one take video that requires no editing in Movie Maker or iMovie that can be a digital story, instructional video or other educational tool. There are many wasy to approach this with your students. Show them samples, create one in front of them, allow them to create their own or prepare the script and paper “slides” for them. I highly recommend creating content samples for them the first time so that they get used to the process. Give them only 15 minutes to practice (with a timer displayed) and then give them only another 15 min. (at the most) for a final take. The end result is a classroom library of content in video format that your students have access to for enrichment/remediation and of course, differentiation. Like all good ideas, use it sparingly because even paperslide videos can become routine. When you get a chance, please check a sample paperslide that the Bradford County teachers using My husband created the “slides” and the narration and the teachers created the video within 20 minutes including practice. I’m really looking forward to what Lodge has in store for us at FETC!
As always, I am
Ubiquitously yours,
K
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