November 19, 2013 - Todd Nesloney's Webinar

For the November 19 class, I watched Todd Nesloney’s webinar from 05. 07. 2013 about flipped classroom.

Todd explained it’s not ALL about the videos.  He mentioned that videos are only about 10% of his flipped classroom.  When he puts together his videos, he tries to make his videos an average of 6 minutes long, and he usually only puts in one example.  He leaves it up to the students to research more examples if they need it.

One important tip I learned is that he does a few videos at a time.  He will do three videos at a time, so he’s not making videos all the time.  He said he doesn’t do them at home, he’ll come into work an hour early and work on his videos (I’m not sure why he does this, because personally, I’d rather be at home and do it.)

Todd covered a lot of bases in his webinar, but if I could ask him one question, I would like to ask Todd if he’s ever encountered a parent who is opposed to this method of teaching, and if so, how did he deal with opposition from the parent.

After watching Todd’s webinar I think I’d be more inclined to use the flipped classroom teaching method. I know that schools want to make sure teachers are inventing new methods of teaching, and based on Todd’s positive outlook on flipped classroom, I think I would integrate it into my classroom.  I wouldn’t want to completely do a flipped classroom, but I think it would be great to implement it a few times a month to keep things fresh and make things interesting for the students.