Diane Ankenmann's List: edtech, web 2.0 apps

• This article gives an overview of screencasting and explores some advantages and drawbacks of both the flipped and face/flip approaches.
• incorporating video in the classroom leads to increased retention of information by students, helps them comprehend the material faster, provides a common experience for all students and can demonstrate abstract concepts using animations

• Ensuring it stays academic
• change the classroom dynamic from lecturing at the front of the room to having no traditional front of the classroom at all.
• Use smartphones to stay organized and assess learning
• Remind101, where students voluntarily sign up to receive a text reminder when they have an upcoming assignment due.
• Halla recommends polleverywhere.com to test students’ knowledge of their subject material before an upcoming test.
• Halla has created a list of some of the most useful apps he’s found for the classroom, which is available on his blog.
• Let fun foster productivity
• his students are quieter and more focused on their assignments when they are allowed to listen to their music during individual classwork

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• I created a 5–10 minute podcast for each essential element of the essay and posted them online (www.mspatel.podomatic.com). I used PowerPoint and Prezi (www.prezi.com) to create the visual portions of the podcast and added an audio component with QuickTime I (www.quicktime.com).
• The podcasts are effective. The information is presented simply and straightforwardly, making it easy to understand.
• The podcasts are a powerful resource. Students can refer to the videos when needed—
• There’s time for processing. Watching the videos provides students with time to process the information.
• There’s more time to write. Students have more class time to work on planning and writing their essays,
• Link videos to classroom instruction. Be sure podcasts have a clear purpose linked to the activity that will be completed the next day.

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