What is a Flipped Classroom?
Very basically, it's an alternative method of learning and teaching, where the classroom time is replaced from being a lecture and what might have previously been allocated as "homework" resembles that which is done in classroom time.Here's some information that I've collated if you want to know more about the Flipped Classroom.
The result of this thinking is that tutors are creating resources to deliver in advance to their students. Such resources might include podcasts, YouTube videos and collections of information.
However, what if you don't yet want to create your own materials? There are plenty of resources out there.
In the true spirit of flipped learning, this blog post gives you information about where you can look and some things you need to be aware of when searching the internet for materials. I would on request, be able to provide a workshop for Coventry University tutors who wish to explore this further.
Searching for resources - guidelines
So you want to search the internet for resources but need to be aware of some of the procedure and possible snags? This JISC tutorial, Internet Audio Resources is an excellent place to start. Similar tutorials are also available in the Virtual Training Suite.If you want to know more about the copyright aspects of audio-visual use, here's some help from JISC Digital Media.
(Coventry University: you can ask your subject librarian. Note that CU has a licence to record some TV and Radio programmes too).
Open resources
Open resources are available for you to find. As well as examples listed in the JISC tutorials, take a look at inspirational words in TED Talks, Khan Academy for learning resources and, instead of YouTube, try TeacherTube.Coventry University Open Collection
CURVE digital repository has an open collection of digital resources (as well as an internal collection where staff can view and add items).Creative Commons
You can find and use Creative Commons resources according to the licence. For more information, here's a wonderful resource from tagseoblog that tells you "What means Creative Commons"Creative Commons Search - DIY resource
Finally, here's a YouTube video (quick and dirty, but complete with transcript) about how to search for a Creative Commons image and use its attribution.Start it and stop it to see the captions options and settings. It's best viewed full screen and Settings - Quality in 1080 high density.
I prefer to do videos without scripts and in one take.
It was created using Snagit; Camtasia was used to add the additional labels.
Finally, the captions were automatically created within YouTube. I only needed to perform some minor edits on it. It was excellent in working out what I said.
