 I don't know if you're familiar with any of these. And there are maybe hundreds that do the same thing. Edu creations and vitl convert your tablet into a digital whiteboard and record your voice so you can write on the board, you can pause and add images and put things from the internet and so on. It makes it very, very easy to create instructional videos with your voice using your tablet. I've seen lots of maths teachers use this. No explaining how they solve maths problems and things like this, right? So this is a great, again, wasn't designed for education but we as teachers think about ways that we can adapt things for education. Padlet we saw before, Edmodo is like Facebook but you're probably aware of this now but it's designed for education so again it's a safe kind of educational version of Facebook. And Jing is my absolute favourite, okay? Because it's the quickest. Haven't you seen it before? It's the quickest and it's the easiest and it's absolutely great. Let's have a quick look at this. Basically, what I can do is click on here, select an area of the screen, press record. So this is the questionnaire that we did today and here we have the answers to the different questions. So in the first one it seems that the most popular answer was number two, in the second one the most popular answer was number one, in the third one number one, in the fourth one number four, in the fifth one number three and in the final one number four. Okay, now, finish. Okay, now, if I want to share this video, the video doesn't exist physically really, it's in the cloud. So okay, we're on quite slow Wi-Fi here but this bar would normally go up quite quickly and when it gets to the top, in your right click you have the link to the video. You can send the video, send the link via email or put the link on your school website or send it via Padlet or whatever you want to do and then whoever clicks on there will see this video. And it has so many possible functions. It takes the teaching outside of the classroom. You can make free videos of up to five minutes. You can get your students to use this as well. I had, I taught a group of university teachers a few years ago, teaching them English and I used this to give them feedback on their written work because giving written feedback but I can give spoken feedback in two minutes with their work on the screen which is much more detailed than I would be willing to write. And I did this with this group of students and one of the students was a teacher of nursing and his eyes lit up and he said, great, I can use this with my students because one of the tasks that he wanted them to do was to interpret x-ray images of chests, broken bones and things like this and he said that what he was going to do with them was send them the images of the x-rays and what they'd have to do on their computer is put this on the screen and create the little video with the commentary and so on send it back to him and this was part of their assessment part of their evaluation. So really when you think that you can make a quick and simple video which occupies no space on your computer just by selecting the screen and adding your voice then I think this becomes a very powerful tool it's a screen casting tool it's better if you have good Wi-Fi for example ok, you can't hear this very well but this is a portfolio of activities from one of my students and what I did in advance was highlighted some things that were interesting then I created the video sent the video back to her and you can see me in a moment scrolling through her work making some comments I can even work on the document in real time and highlight things and so on so it's a great way for giving input but also a fantastic way for giving feedback now and we're going to cancel this because it wasn't the most interesting of videos anyway and I'm not sure if you're aware of these but when I was revising this presentation yesterday I had a big disappointment I don't know if you know about present me but present me is an online tool which allows you to upload a PowerPoint presentation and to add your voice and if you want or not to also add your webcam image so it's great for giving presentations and for giving input and when I was checking this yesterday and checking the link it said, sorry, we are disappearing however however on the message it said we advise you to check out Office Mix and Office Mix is something that I'd already started using anyway are any of you aware of it? it's a free plugin for PowerPoint if you have a pirated version then sorry if you have an original version that you've paid for and a license and so on you can get this free plugin and it's a video suite which allows you to record videos of your PowerPoint presentations and you can pause you can actually draw on the presentations and highlight them and so on and it records this on the video but doesn't record it on the original presentation or if you want it to you can so that you have two versions of the link videos of your presentations like I said it's free, it's an excellent tool I'm going to show you see if we get lucky I teach blended learning semi-presential courses as well and I see my students three times three Saturdays and everything else is online and I teach the same subject that I teach presential and sometimes it's very shame for me that I don't get to see them so much so some of the classes that I give if I have the presentation made I create a video using present me before and now using office mix and what it means is that they can't escape from me they even have to watch me at home volume is not very good in here so what they get essentially is a class they kind of don't really need to come to class they get the activity sent to them when they do come to class this is the thing I have three Saturdays with a group per subject and I get an hour and fifty minutes with them so a little bit less than this session today now I don't really know these students I might have 25 in a group and I meet them three times attendance is not mandatory they can decide to come to the class or not which puts me in a very difficult situation because we are not allowed to do anything which is essential for the subject because attendance is not obligatory but we have to do something useful and interesting for them to try and motivate them to come it's pretty tricky this is why this flipped model is particularly good in this case because they get all of the input outside class what I do inside the classroom is resolve doubts extend them discuss these things and all the work they have done in preparation for the class what are the challenges of this well it means that I go into class I have some things prepared but I don't really know what's going to happen and it also means that I definitely can't have everybody doing the same thing at the same time because maybe these three over here maybe these three just really didn't understand any of my explanation whatsoever so I have to and the others they did and they're interested in something else so I have to try and find some way to extend them however although this feels like a lot of work if you have a control and a command of the subject it's much more fulfilling much more enjoyable because you really think that you're responding to their needs at the same place in the end but it's not the lock step marching approach it's everybody kind of going at their own rhythm so the other thing is time teachers always complain about time we never have enough time however if we see this as an investment then it changes its neck because some of these videos years ago haven't taught that class since I send them to the video and we do different things in class so you know contents, the law changes contents check like what used to be unit 3 is now unit 5 but the contents don't change that much so producing these things I think is a very worthwhile a very worthwhile investment some of the ideas some of the things that we can do with these tools a lot of the stuff that we do anyway but often takes up a lot of time another situation I come across quite often is teachers saying they don't have enough time in class have to finish the book don't have enough time but I observe a lot of teachers teaching and I see a lot of valuable time wasted doing things that for example correcting homework correcting homework I gave you 10 questions for homework okay so Jaime, question number 1 come to the front, write the answer on the board Jaime, thank you very much good, sit down Maria, question number 2 and we get 50 minutes of correcting 10 questions for which were homework by using these tools we can give them the answers I'm always in favour of projecting the answers giving them the answers and if they got any wrong they tell you and it turns out that everybody got number 8 wrong so what do we spend time on question number 8 we don't spend time on question number 1 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 that everybody got correct so I think it is one of the big messages from today I hope is about maximising time optimising the time another big idea pro is a very nice word pro is a very positive thing consumers the internet used to be about consuming content but then we got web 2.0 and it's about producing content as well the thing is with all of these tools that we can use for ourselves these screen casting tools office mix, jing things like this is that if we get our students to use them as well and some of these I mean they can use them not only for just producing these things but for collaborating as well today's meat padlet the google docs and things like this these are all things that we can get the students to use and they can collaborate and co-operate in real time right couple more things and then I'm going to get past the section of showing you some tools the thing is with the tools though is that these are just examples and there are many other tools that can do the same thing teachers sometimes say to me things like Matthew how can I use twitter in class I want to use twitter and I say why silence the technology is not the objective I asked them wait a minute what's the activity what do you want to do maybe twitter is not the best thing for doing it maybe there's something else that could accomplish the same objective and teachers sometimes think that people sometimes think that the technology itself is the objective and it certainly isn't have any of you ever used a wiki let's see if I can open this one okay so I had a wiki with a group of with a group of students I've done this several times wiki is really easy wiki is a website that you can edit so on any of these pages if you click on edit it transforms to something like a word document so you can add images, you can write, you can do whatever and when you click save it transforms back into a a web page again now one of the things I did here this is a group of students just step and we did a little psychological test I went to class and I said okay draw a tree everybody take a piece of paper and draw a tree do you know the tree test it's quite common psychological test so they didn't know what I was doing this for so I said draw a tree so everybody drew a tree some of them were very artistic some of them not quite so much and I said okay the tree says a lot about your personality your homework is to go home get on the internet and discover what your tree says about you then what you have to do is upload your picture take a photo or scan upload it onto the wiki and I'd like you to write underneath what you've discovered about your psychological profile on what the tree says about you so this is kind of student generated content I didn't explain this to them I gave them the medium and we had some really interesting ones look at this one it's very nice she has some apples in her tree and she has some roots in her tree which says a lot about her this tree has no ground it's just suspended in midair this says something about her as well all of these trees I think some of the trees say something about their artistic capabilities as well this would be my limit of drawing a tree I think this one and my favourite one this is my favourite tree clearly he is obsessed with something so the wiki is a great thing but it could be a blog there are other things you could use as well but it's editable content generated by your students and it's a great way of communicating with them another strong reason for doing this do you know what the 21st century skills are? well first of all do you know what the four Cs of Clil are and I really hope you know this by now they are in any particular order content, cognition, communication and culture now curiously 21st century skills have also been divided into a framework of four Cs do you know what they are? let's have a look very clever it's easy when you know the answer and the thing is that these kind of coincide with Clil anyway communication is a big one of course creativity and critical thinking really these are high elements of cognition and collaboration well this is slightly different maybe but you can see the similarities here do you know about Bloom's taxonomy? you've had this right? so this is what I showed you before this was the the SAMA model and the higher up we go the easier it is to justify the use of the technology and I think this matches quite nicely with Bloom's taxonomy as well so the higher we go when you start redefining tasks they tend to be more evaluative and more creative so there's a strong imperative here for incorporating technology into our lessons when it's at a level of modifying and redefining and when it involves analysing, evaluating and creating rather than the lower order thinking skills now I want to do a little test with you because I'm just curious because I said do you know about Bloom's taxonomy and people go yeah do you know about cognition? so here's a little test for you do you remember the levels at the bottom? ah no the pyramids not the other one remembering you might want to write them down maybe remembering understanding applying these are lots analysing evaluating creating these are hots now what I'd like you to do very quickly with your partners is I've got five questions here and I want you to decide with your partners which level each of these questions might be working good luck I could I could correct the answers and get one person to come to the front and do number one and another person so there you go now I'm sure because this is not the first time I've done this I'm sure that some of you thought some of those questions were much higher order than they really are like for example the first one can you give me an example? I don't know why teachers tend to think this is a higher order thinking question but really it's just understanding let me give you a little example can you give me an example of an amphibian now if you can give me an example I know you understand the concept of amphibian right? now can you give me 10 examples of an amphibian is that harder? is that higher level thinking? no no no no no no no absolutely not what I just did is I made low level thinking more difficult but I didn't make it high level thinking because if you give me one example that's easy because we all know a frog but if I ask for 5 or 10 cognitively we're working at exactly the same level I just changed the conditions and made low level thinking harder can you give me a definition of an amphibian? anyone feeling brave? last time I did this there were some secondary school teachers and I had a biology teacher her explanation just blew me away really can you give me a definition of an amphibian? animal that can breathe under the water and also on land right? what level of thinking is that? could be remembering if you read that definition and committed it to memory or it could be understanding but do you know it's what happens here it's on the same level as can you give me an example how did I make it more difficult? I made it linguistically more challenging because giving a definition is more difficult and also we need relative clauses it's an animal which can that's a relative clause quite complex language but the level of thinking is very low linguistically it's more difficult than saying frog but cognitively it's no more difficult really now really high level thinking would be how would you test if an animal is an amphibian? silence nobody's saying frog here it's a rhetorical question it is a rhetorical question now if I asked you this question and you had to design a test to discover if an animal is an amphibian if you could do that then you'd really understand amphibians at a much higher or deeper level depending on how we're thinking about it now one thing you could do is you could hold it under water for three minutes and when you bring it up if it's alive it's an amphibian if it's not it wasn't like cat, amphibian or not I'm kidding I'm kidding the thing is is when we move to a more flipped model the lower level thinking stuff which is the understanding and the remembering can be done with these screen casting tools or the reading that you ask them to do or the things that you ask them to do outside class and all of the stuff which challenges them and extends them because you've laid the foundation outside the class can be done inside the class now I know some of you will be thinking yeah but what if they don't do it at home okay not ideal but also not a problem not overcome some students come to class having done and understood everything we asked of them some of them come to class having done kind of understood some of them come to class having done and understood nothing and some of them come to class not having done but therefore we can change the grouping we can change the activities and we can do the things which respond more to their needs so this is very this is very connected to a justification for flip learning now what I was going to get you to do but we're running out of time is to create a google form now the google form is what we did before with the questionnaire about digital technology have any of you ever created one or used one for those of you haven't I'll just show you very very briefly because I think it's a great thing so I'm in my google drive here google drive of course is free the other thing is this is not the only tool for doing this you have quizlets you have lots of other tools that you can do for creating this kind of thing but if I go on new and then I go down to more and then I go down to google it's okay it's gonna last 12 12% got loads of time so new more google forms and here I can create different types of questions they can be multiple choice they can be on a scale like the one that I asked you to do you can ask them to write short answers they can be yes or no etc etc and again when you want to share this you send it and it arrives as a link to whoever you send it to now it's a great thing for teachers to use but it's an amazing thing to get students to use as well there's something very powerful about students assessing other students let's take a topic for example I don't know photosynthesis for example and imagine I have this is my class and I have this group over here and I ask them to create a google forms exam, test, questionnaire whatever you want to call it to create it and to send the link to them and then I ask them to create one with 10 questions and to send the link to them and so on successively and then final what we get is a load of student created exams now the students criteria for creating those exams what are they gonna do first of all they're gonna think what's important what's necessary what was difficult for me what do I know about this what am I gonna ask the other people and also they're probably gonna want to make their exam difficult and what will happen here is that not everybody will get all of the questions correct but that doesn't matter this is formative assessment this is the teacher identifying what the students and don't know what they think is important what they don't think is important and so on and it's student generated content now that's one idea of one use for this technology and again it's taking learning a little bit outside the classroom and changing what we do because imagine the homework is you're going to receive a little test, a little questionnaire from your classmates I want you to answer it and in the next class you saw what I did with the graph you could see what the responses were you could see you have a wealth of information here and this is really flipping the classroom on its head because what you're doing in class is guiding correcting extending all of these things right so and now I'm gonna finish you were a bit late coming back so you do kind of owe me 10 minutes just saying so this is kind of to summarise by flipping the classroom and doing this kind of thing and using these kind of tools we do it well we're doing this another big idea was this one that content doesn't have to come from the teacher necessarily now it doesn't have to be teacher generated or chosen by the teacher now it can come from the students as well this very much modifies the role of the teacher in the classroom I think and finally and I'm gonna be a little bit cheeky here thank you very much this book would be a wealth in addition to your school I think it's called Planning for Clil but in Spanish even though the title is in English there's a whole kind of theoretical framework and background on how to do the things to take into consideration and how to do it there are also some sections in there which are in English which are reflection tasks or tasks that you might be able to do with your colleagues, with yourself to reflect on how you're teaching or how you're trying to apply Clil in your classrooms and at the end of the book the final unit is a didactic unit which is in English as well and it puts into practice all of these principles and all of those ideas that are explained in the rest of the book it's about 110 pages, it's only a thin thing so I think it's something that you might be interested in don't worry I'm not gonna somebody might make some money out of this but it won't be me so I really believe in it it'd be a nice addition to your school's library perhaps and it could be very helpful for you I hope you enjoyed the session you've been very nice, you've been very participative and I hope I've convinced you of the idea that we can partially flip the classroom of course any methodology if taken to its extreme becomes a bit ridiculous but there are elements here which hopefully you can incorporate which will mean that you do in class stuff which is more personalised for your group of students and stuff that you enjoy doing a bit more and that they enjoy doing a bit more and this can be a very productive experience so I hope some of this was convincing thank you