This document discusses the benefits and challenges of flipping the classroom by creating instructional videos for students to watch outside of class. Data shows that students retain information better from videos than textbooks, with retention rates ranging from 71% for textbooks to 93% for videos created by Nancy Foote. Benefits include freeing up class time for activities, building teacher-student relationships, allowing students to learn at their own pace, and providing instruction when teachers are absent. Challenges include the time needed to create videos, convincing students and teachers, and issues of unequal access to technology. The document provides recommendations for low-budget video equipment and tips for a relaxed approach to video quality.

1. Is It Hype or Is It Teaching?
Flip the district
Nancy Foote
nancyfootehigley@gmail.com
www.theunintentionalgeek.com

2. The Beginning

3. Data

4. Textbook
71%
Video
83%

5. Kahn Academy
video
86%
Nancy Foote
video
93%

6. Without my
face
84%
Showing my
face
89%

7. Benefits
 Time (192, 60, 11)
 Relationship between teachers/parents/students
 Transparency
 Reflection
 Vetting process
 Flexible lesson time (extracurricular activities)
 Pace of learning is in the hands of the student (differentiated learning)
 Teacher absence (no emergency sub plans needed)

8. Challenges
 Time
 Students won’t watch the video
 Technology inequality
 It’s still a lecture
 Nerve-wracking if you put it “out there” in the world but it can be private between you
and your students/families/administration
 Convincing teachers
 Getting people to realize that it’s not a fad, it’s using technology in the classroom.

9. Equipment
 Camera/ smart phone/ tablet/ recording device
 Tripod
 White boards
 Time

10. One take videos
 No editing
 As long as information is correct, the presentation doesn't matter.
 Teachers should not get hung up on:
 The quality of the video
 The quality of their make-up/hair that day
 The lighting

11. YouTube channel data
www.youtube.com/nancyfootehigley

14. Commercial
 To download my white paper on classroom innovation
nancyfootehigley@gmail.com
www.theunintentionalgeek.com