Audio and Visual Digital Tools (EDLD 5317)

When COVID originally forced my school to finish the year fully virtually and asynchronously, I felt someone stuck. As a HS math teacher, I have a strict curriculum I have to get through in order to prepare my students for their future courses and all of the material I was teaching at that point was completely new to them. Having taught these courses multiple times in the past, I had my PPs that I had been basing my lessons off of, however, the only way that I knew get this information to my students in a timely manner was to record voiceovers of PPs, essentially modeling my lessons after what Sal Khan does on Khan Academy.

My lessons were essentially groups togethers as modules, all based on our LMS Schoology. Since then, I have become aware of awesome tools like EdPuzzle, that allows me embed questions into the videos as quick formative checks. Also, Khan Academy has been such a useful resource for my own learning as well as my students learning.

In preparation for my blended learning innovation plan, I have been gradually recording screencasts of each of my lessons. Aside from using them in a flipped classroom setting, they also provide me with flexibility as I can send them out to students when they miss a lesson or can give them students who may be excelling as an enrichment type activity.