1. A CLOUD FOR FLIPPED CLASSROOMS A “Cloud” for Flipped Classrooms NCCE 3/1/13 Pamela Livingston

2. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction 2 Pamela Livingston 1-to-1 book Adjunct Professor K-12 teacher grad school Tech director, teacher @ public, private, charter Sr. Product Mgr @ Schoolwires Schoolwires Web solutions for K-12 school districts Communities Centricity2 Nimbus

3. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. About Today 3 Collective expertise – let’s tap! Flipped/Blended Learning overview The Cloud for Flipped/Blended Learning

4. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Who Are We – What do We Want? 4 Administrators? Teachers? Other educator/company? Current blended/flipped learning? Investigating blended/flipped learning? Planning blended/flipped learning?

5. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. What is a “Flipped Classroom?” 5 Any other definitions to offer? Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

6. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. What a Flipped Classroom Model Does 6 Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

7. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Two Key Factors Driving Adoption of Flipped Classrooms 7 What are your possible reasons? Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

8. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Two Key Factors Driving Adoption of Flipped Classrooms 8 What “collateral” do you have? What means of creating recordings, video exist? Source: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

9. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Let’s hear from some teachers 9 MarkBurkeJerryChristy.mp4 Anything to share?

10. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Implementing blended learning 10 Often disparate Web 2.0 products Incumbent on teacher to integrate products Students need logins, passwords to many products Login fatigue Fractured student experience – remembering, adapting Your experience?

11. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. A solution for the cloud 11 A flipped classroom community Nimbus demo Questions?

12. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Schoolwires Technology Supports Flipped Learning 12 Centricity2 and Nimbus support all aspects of the flipped classroom, from multimedia lectures and materials to in- class collaboration and assessment tools — including forms, surveys and polls.

13. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. How Centricity2 Supports Lecture Content 13 Centricity2 – Teacher Pages Videos Podcasts Article library Wiki Threaded commenting Website links Photo galleries Assignments Forms and surveys

14. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. How Nimbus Supports Lecture Content 14 Nimbus – Groups = Classrooms Work area – files (articles, PPT, Word, Excel) Blogs – videos and podcasts, website links Albums Assignments Discussions Real time text collaboration (shared documents) Chat

15. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Examples of Nimbus Features 15 Share documents in the Work Area Present ideas and understanding in the Blog

16. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Examples of Nimbus Features 16 Share student work through Albums Assign homework in Assignments

17. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. How Does Centricity2 Support Flipped Learning? 17 Teacher pages Blogs, Wikis, threaded commenting, rating Users and groups Forms, surveys, tests, quizzes Assignments Files and folders Accessible online 24x7 Watch videos, listen to podcasts Single sign-onto Nimbus

18. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. How Does Nimbus Support Flipped Learning? 18 Workspaces Discussion board, wall posts, blogs, online chat, messages Real time text collaboration (shared documents) Members, groups, project teams Polls Assignments Accessible online 24x7 Single sign-on from Centricity2

19. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Benefits to Districts and Community 19 District benefits from unified platform o Increases efficiency and security IT benefits from bandwidth and storage for all teacher- created content and materials Teachers benefit from individual pages that are easy to maintain and update o Saves teachers time o Eliminates fractured user experiences Students and parents stay caught up o Students collaboratively work with peers o Avoid frustration at home

20. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Schoolwires Supports Flipped Learning 20

21. © 2012 Schoolwires, Inc. All rights reserved. Schoolwires, the Schoolwires logos, and the unique trade dress of Schoolwires are the trademarks, service marks, trade dress and logos of Schoolwires, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, trade dress and logos used in Schoolwires and the Website are the trademarks, service marks, trade dress and logos of their respective owners. FLIPPED LEARNING 21 For more information on Schoolwires and Flipped Learning, visit our website: http://www.schoolwires.com/flipped http://www.schoolwires.com/flipped To listen to a Webinar from authors of the Flipped Learning book visit here: http://vimeo.com/51684722 To contact me: pamela.livingston@schoolwires.compamela.livingston@schoolwires.com http://www.twitter.com/plivings For additional information, please contact Sales@schoolwires.com For a simple Nimbus account – respond on Wiki Q & A?