Ladies and gentlemen, it has begun! My goal is to partially flip my classroom this year and I’ve found the means to do it. I suppose I should have posted my action plan first but I couldn’t help myself so here’s my action plan along with a description of what I’ve done so far:<\/p>\n
Since the boys I teach French to only see me for 90-120 minutes in a 6-day, I figured I needed another way to exposure them to oral french. The AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method) program that I use – it’s the one with the French plays and the gestures – sells DVDs that can be sent home but those cost money and can easily be lost. I originally wanted to record these DVDs and post them to YouTube but that would’ve violated a copyright law or two. However, in a course I was taking on AIM delivery, we were told by AIM that we could record ourselves doing the gestures and saying the words and post them. Here’s the end result of that (please excuse the nasty Movember moustache):<\/p>\n
Youtube vocab<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7psqAqbJJE<\/a><\/p>\n However, when I first tried that, a colleague pointed out that I couldn’t control the videos that would pop up on the side bar. One of the videos was about swearing while another was about Rob Ford and his “leisure pursuits”. My colleague suggested I try TeacherTube.\u00a0It’s pretty much like Youtube for teachers since it doesn’t have ads or inappropriate videos that pop up on the side. I haven’t had too many problems with it, though there was one time when I couldn’t get the video to display even though the audio was fine.<\/p>\n TeacherTube vocab video<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.teachertube.com\/viewVideo.php?video_id=318581<\/a><\/p>\n So far I’ve had decent feedback and some kids have even showed it to their younger siblings. Eventually, I’m hoping to switch back entirely to Youtube once I’ve got enough videos on my channel. I’m hoping to release about one video per week, though eventually I’ll release different videos for each grade I teach. Let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ladies and gentlemen, it has begun! My goal is to partially flip my classroom this year and I’ve found the means to do it. I suppose I should have posted my action plan first but I couldn’t help myself so here’s my action plan along with a description of what I’ve done so far: Since … Continue reading “A journey of a 1000 e-miles begins with a single e-step…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[3,10,9,8,12,11],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cohort-21","category-tales-from-french-class","tag-aim","tag-flipped-classroom","tag-french","tag-language-learning","tag-teachertube","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sandygibson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}