Slideshow of Section 3 Professional Learning at Benton Elementary

1. Blended Learning
Session 2
The Flipping and Blending
Teacher

2. Agenda
• Whole Group Session – Media Center
• Teachers log into kidblog
• Download Filr app
• Stations
• Station 1 – Kidblog – Grant’s classroom
• Station 2 - Filr – Data Room
• Station 3 – Resources – Media Center
• Whole Group Session
• Weebly - Media Center

3. BES Teachers Can
Blend and Flip!
Station 3

4. Station 3 Blended and Flipped
Resources
In this station teachers will……
• Learn how to use kidblog with a
current lesson
• Learn how to use an existing video as
part of a technology station or in a
flipped classroom setting
• Learn how to use Smart notebook to
practice a skill

5. Blended and Flipped Resources
Topic 1 – Blog Questions
You have already seen some reasons for blogging. Let’s
look at these again
• have students share their personal feelings and
experiences
• ask a question and have your students answer the
question in a blog response
• respond to an answer that someone in the class
writes
• share materials, news, downloads, and links
• replace your news letter and stay in touch with
parents about what is going on in class
• Share your lesson plans
• Get feedback or gather information

6. Blog Questions
Now that you have some idea of how students can
respond to a blog let’s look at some questions you
might want to ask students.
When you ask blog questions remember to “Keep
It Simple”.
5 questions you might want to ask are:
• What do you think?
• Why do you think that?
• How do you know this?
• Can you tell me more?
• What questions do you still have?

7. Activity:
Talk with your Neighbor:
Share a blog question that you might
ask your students.
Post your answer on padlet
http://padlet.com/ttyner/blogquestion
There are lots of examples of teacher blog sites. Let’s
take a few minutes and look at some of these.
Teachers First Blog

8. Videos in the Blended or Flipped
Classroom
Remember you want to keep everything simple!
There are a number of great sites that teachers can use to
find educational videos.
Some examples you might want to check out are:
• Learn zillion
• History channel
• Pbs
• United Streaming
• Media Cast
• Teacher Tube
• You Tube

9. Video Examples
An example of a video you might want to use
is found at Learn Zillion
Learn Zillion video
Activity:
Talk with your neighbor about a video you use in
the classroom that you could use in the blended
or flipped classroom.

10. Web Page – The best 25 websites for
teachers to look for video.
Are you looking for new video
websites. You might want to
checkout the webpage.
Best 25 Websites for Teacher
Videos

11. Creating Your Own Video
The easiest way to create your own video is to use your
ipad. The ipad has a great camera and it is a simple
process to transfer your video to your computer.
After you transfer your video you will need to upload the
video to the internet.
There are 2 ways you can do this:
• Create a teacher tube account
• Create a Youtube account
After you upload to these sites you will have access to the
link then all you will need to do is post that link to a web
page.

12. Smart Notebook Page Recorder
Looking for a great tool for students
to “show what they know”.
Try the Smart Notebook Page
Recorder
Go to smart
notebook

13. Activity
Talk with your neighbor
Discuss one activity that you could have
your students ‘Show What They Know”
Post your answer on our padlet.
http://padlet.com/ttyner/showwhatyouknow