Seems like forever since my last blog post lol!
Project status:
My juniors and seniors have started their first week of their flipped classroom. We had a basketball tournament thursday and friday and it seemed like a great opportunity to kick start this thing.
All of the students checked their gmail accounts and logged into the blog site one last time to test it, then they were on their own. Right now, I'm refraining from embedding videos and links to the blog page due to some students lacking internet access. Their homework was simply to read the next chapter, work on their skill packet and have everything ready to go by Monday (today). Nothing real fancy.
The next step is to get my promethean active expression devices set up and ready to go so we can do short, concise assessments of what they were to study the night before. They are already having a hard time with the "not doing work at home" thing. "Coach, I'm already done!". It will take some time to get them to leave the work at school lol! It took me almost 18 months to teach them how to "do homework". Now I'm redefining it.
But, I have faith...
Course status:
Starting 5333 this week. Doesn't look too difficult, but lots of busy work. BAD TIMING that this hits on Thanksgiving week (and the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game last night didn't help). Wish we had just ran straight into it and got this week off instead. I started a new facebook support/study page for the 5333 students. You are all welcome to participate.
I too agree that they should have run through and given this week off! I hope that you had a good response to the learning that was supposed to take place over the weekend. It really sounds like an interesting idea...I hope it is working as planned.
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