I have spent the last two day at the Flipped Learning Conference.  I did this virtually attending 6 workshops and 2 keynote address.  It was fabulous.  The conference was held in Stillwater, MN and was attended by K-12 and some higher ed folks.  This blog (journal) is a result of inspirations learned at the conference.  I was considering ways to document my journey this year and a blog fits with my expedition into new techniques, technologies and pedagogy 

One thing that was really used in the conference was Twitter.  I really had never used it but it was a prevalent method for posting impressions and other ideas throughout the conference.  

I have lists now of things to review and learn about beyond just learning camtasia studio.  Looks like Google has a lot of resources:  Drive, Forms, Blog.  Other items to review:  

• Explain Everything
• Krystal Kirch Blog - lots of resources
• Today's Meet and back channel discussions
• Videonote.es
• Doceri
• Chrombooks
• Swivel Software to Tape Class time
• MentorMob
• YuDu
• Createspace

So you can see from my list, I have lots to consider.  But mostly, I know that the most important thing to attend to this year is shifting me away from the stage in Biology 15 and finding ways to excite and engage and center my students on their learning....

Next week I attend the OnCourse Session in Menlo Park and am looking forward to that experience.

So, as a science person, I like to equate things to the scientific method and right now I am definitely in observation of  phenomena about teaching a flipped or student centered class.  I am collecting resources and gathering info.  Soon, I will need to develop that hypothesis and my class in 2014 will be the experiment.  

Take care, L