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Utilizing Google Forms For Feedback and Data Gathering for Instructional Videos in a Blended Classroom

lowell Thomson | Fri, 10/17/2014 - 08:22

In my previous post, I shared the general formatting of the videos I create for my IB Chemistry course within which I utilize the flipped model. Within that blog post, I mentioned that I use Google Forms to collect data about the videos, and I'd like to offer some thoughts on this as a tool with many uses.

Using Twitter for a Backchannel Chat During a Fish Bowl Discussion

lowell Thomson | Sat, 03/29/2014 - 08:14

In a previous post, I discussed the work of my grade 10 class as we read the non-fiction story, The Case of the Frozen Addicts. We've continued working our way through the book, taking one class every two weeks to delve into the issues presented. Just this week, we engaged in a fish-bowl discussion. To help steer the discussion, I started the class with a quick warm-up activity asking students to suggest topics or questions that they would want to talk through in the fish bowl.