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Part 4: How will you hold students accountable for watching videos?
Now that students are going to be responsible for receiving the instruction at home, it's important to have a few good ways to hold them accountable for actually watching your video lessons. Here are a few great ways that you can implement to make sure that your students are doing what they're supposed to do!
1. Don't Lecture!
Lecturing over the same material that students should have already watched in your video will only teach students that it is
unnecessary to do the work at home because they'll come to expect that you'll just cover it during the next class period.
Lecturing over the same material that students should have already watched in your video will only teach students that it is
unnecessary to do the work at home because they'll come to expect that you'll just cover it during the next class period.
2. "Easter Eggs"
Video game, movie, and software creators will often hide "extras" throughout their games, movies, etc. for users to
find. It's a play on a traditional easter egg hunt. Why not borrow that technique for your own students? Hide an easter egg in the content of your flipped video and let students know that it will be used as an entry ticket to class or maybe, if they're lucky, extra credit! For example, in your video, you could discuss a secret word that students have to write down and define as their entry into the next class period.
Video game, movie, and software creators will often hide "extras" throughout their games, movies, etc. for users to
find. It's a play on a traditional easter egg hunt. Why not borrow that technique for your own students? Hide an easter egg in the content of your flipped video and let students know that it will be used as an entry ticket to class or maybe, if they're lucky, extra credit! For example, in your video, you could discuss a secret word that students have to write down and define as their entry into the next class period.
3. Use a Graphic Organizer
There are several great graphic organizer that a teacher can use to hold students accountable for watching their flipped lessons. Two favorites are the WSQ (Watch, Summarize, Question) and the 3-2-1 Comprehension Check (3 things you learned, 2 questions to ask a peer to test their understanding, 1 question you still have about the content. Click the images below for a copy of a ready-to-use WSQ or 3-2-1 organizer.
There are several great graphic organizer that a teacher can use to hold students accountable for watching their flipped lessons. Two favorites are the WSQ (Watch, Summarize, Question) and the 3-2-1 Comprehension Check (3 things you learned, 2 questions to ask a peer to test their understanding, 1 question you still have about the content. Click the images below for a copy of a ready-to-use WSQ or 3-2-1 organizer.
4. Educanon
Educanon is a great technology tool that allows you to upload the video you want to show to your class and then embed questions and prompts a intervals throughout the video for students to respond to in order to gauge their understanding. With Educanon, you can create multiple choice, writing prompts, and more for your students to complete as they watch your lesson from home! It is perfect for accountability and you get all of the data saved in the Educanon Teacher Dashboard! Note: YouTube videos will not work in-district with Educanon even if you email the Help Desk!
Educanon is a great technology tool that allows you to upload the video you want to show to your class and then embed questions and prompts a intervals throughout the video for students to respond to in order to gauge their understanding. With Educanon, you can create multiple choice, writing prompts, and more for your students to complete as they watch your lesson from home! It is perfect for accountability and you get all of the data saved in the Educanon Teacher Dashboard! Note: YouTube videos will not work in-district with Educanon even if you email the Help Desk!
5. All of the other things you'd normally do with your students!
- Note-taking
- Pop Quizzes
- Discussions (take it online by requiring students to answer a prompt from home on Edmodo or Google Classroom!)
- Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!