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This weeks Snag Learning movie is called project Earth, Tstaaten – The Tsaats of Mongolia. This movie explores the unique cultural identity of the Tsaats of Mongolia and and stunning natural environment of Mongolia. Snag Learning also provides a number of discussion questions that can be discussed after viewing the movie. These questions can be completed in a number of ways, but I am inclined to use a forum that can be embedded in my class blog. I can also further differentiate this task by having students respond orally to these questions by using voicethread or vocaroo. The videos are categorized by grade and subject which is very helpful for teachers.

The following video explains the idea of “flipping” teaching, so lecture is done outside of class and more practice is done during the school day.

The video below shows classroom activities, after students have viewed an instructional video.

The whole flipped classroom concept really intrigues me, so I have decided to do some digging to see what the buzz is all about. Below are links to blogs that cover the topic.

Donald Clark Plan B

Learning Classroom

Maryna Badenhorst – To flip or not to flip (an excellent analysis)

Karl Fisch – We see this as the future of higher education

Connected Principals

The Flipped Classroom Model

The following blog is written by Richard Byrne and in it he provides teachers with a huge variety of resources and ways that they can use technology. His latest post is really a guide for teachers about how they can use Google in the classroom.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/03/free-33-page-guide-google-for-teachers.html

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