Flipped Classroom Edtech Resources. A Collection of Video Lesson Customization Tools.

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Flipping Classrooms is an increasingly popular teaching practice that involves teachers providing students with a video lesson to watch at home, then going over the learning material through an activity the next day in the classroom. The advantage of having students watch the lecture at home so that teachers have more time in the classroom to help students with activities and provide them with personal one-on-one help.

I first learned about flipped classrooms late in 2011 through the blog postings of Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann. They were both science teachers who had their students watch lessons at home and then work on hands-on science activities the next day. Working on these activities in the classroom allowed the teachers to give students more personal one-on-one help than if they were to do it at home.

Today I share edtech resources that help teachers create and customize their own video lessons. Making them more interactive by inserting discussion prompts, multiple-choice questions, images, or video. These resources also give teachers and students access to an online library of video lessons from other teachers.

Here are some edtech tools and resources that can help you get started:

Vialogues

What this Resource Includes: Video Lesson Library, Video Lesson Customization
Grade Level: Any
Audience: Teachers & Learners
Platform: Web-based
Price: Free
What it does well: Vialogues is an educational video platform that encourages discussions around specific points in a video. The platform utilizes time-stamped comments. This feature is great for encouraging discussions about different parts of a video lesson. Teachers can use videos from several different sources. They can upload their own video, or use an existing video from YouTube, Vimeo, or Vialogues. After uploading a video to Vialogues, teachers can add their own comments to encourage discussion. They can also add multiple-choice assessment questions or polls to gather students’ feedback. A nifty feature is the timeline graph with every video that shows how many comments were made at a specific point in a video. Vialogues has a vast library of education-related videos. This makes it a safe for students to explore the other videos on the site. 

EduCanon

What this Resource Includes: Video Lesson Library, Video Lesson Customization
Grade Level: Any
Audience: Teachers & Learners
Platform: Web-based
Price: Free
What it does well: Educanon is a video platform that allows teachers to insert questions or different types of media into specific points in a video lesson. Much like Vialogues teachers can upload videos from YouTube or other similar sites. Teachers are able to customize a video lesson so that it will automatically pause when a question or media is set to appear. They can also monitor their students’ activities (views or answers to questions) on a video lesson.

ShowMe

What this Resource Includes: Video Lesson Library, Video Lesson Customization
Grade Level: Any
Audience: Teachers & Learners
Platform: iPad, Web-based
Price: Freemium
What it does well: ShowMe is an iPad app that allows teachers to create their own lesson and have access to a library of teacher-created lessons. Teachers are able to use the app like a whiteboard and draw out their lesson. They can also add their own images to the lesson. They can also record their voice. This app is ideal for math teachers who want to create their own lessons for students to watch at any time. Users can also visit the website and peruse the library of video lessons.

EDpuzzle

What this Resource Includes: Video Cropping, Video Lesson Library, Video Lesson Customization
Grade Level: Any
Audience: Teachers & Learners
Platform: Web-based
Price: Free
What it does well: EDpuzzle enables teachers to take a video lesson and embed questions throughout the video. What is unique about EDpuzzle is that teachers are able to crop sections of any video. With this feature teachers can pick out small chunks of a video and assign them to their students.
For more edtech resources for flipped classrooms check out the Flipped Classroom Edtech Resources Pinterest board (which will always be updated with new resources):

Do you know any other edtech resources for flipped classrooms that aren’t listed? Comment below and share with the rest of the class!