Week One

Students responded to the "right" part of the explanation (not just the no homework part).  When I explained the flipped class approach, the thing they were most excited about was when I said, "...so if you don't get it, you can just watch it over again!"  That made me very happy and hopeful that this is going to work.

Like magic: students walked into class already knowing the content.  Works as promised, at least with the alphabet.

Students really are using the videos as intended, reviewing and rewinding.

Some students independently began taking notes on video lessons, even though I haven't assigned that.

So far, for ABCs, accents and numbers, I am just quizzing students at the door of the class.

I've only ID'd two kids per class who seemed to have either not watched the videos or hadn't watched them "fresh."

Reminders: printed calendar, Haiku, Twitter, encouraged students to subscribe to me on YouTube.

Creating videos:

Mostly good. Seem to have some struggles with annoying white noise when using Chromebook webcam, but only when I'm not at school.  Tried fixing the sound on one of the videos using Audacity.  Decided it would probably be easier to reshoot someday, but timing was a problem.  I did reshoot the number video that had the same problem.

Listen to this one. Gross. Also, lighting continues to be tricky when I'm making videos from home.

Would be great to be able to do some of the editing/fixing at work, but I can't run those programs on the Chromebook, home lappy is ready to die, and adding free software to my desktop PC at work isn't expedient.