David Lee EdTech

What is Google Hangout? Google Hangout is a video conferencing program that Google+, Google’s version of Facebook, provides. You can say Google Hangout is similar to Skype, but where they differ is Hangout’s amazing list of features. I first tried out Hangout with my mentor Mark Page. We instantly saw the potential Hangout could have in an education setting. And when I learned about Flipped Classrooms, I thought Google Hangout would be a great tool to record any teacher’s online video lectures. Here are the features of Google Hangout and how they can be used in a flipped classroom setting: Chat face to face anywhere you are with a computer, phone or tablet.  Students get to use devices that they use in a daily basis. Student-student and student-interaction can occur anywhere. Conduct virtual meetings that allow you to communicate with up to 10 people.  Students can finish their group projects together anywhere, if they do not complete them during class period. Students can ask their te...

The purpose of this blog post is to explain how Google Hangout can be used to ‘flip’ your classroom. But first we should start by learning what a Flipped Classroom is, and how Google Hangout allows teachers to ‘flip’ their classrooms.  Here are two YouTube clips on flipped classrooms featuring the two teachers who made this classroom model popular:  Flipped Classroom ,  Flipped/Mastery Classroom . The image above illustrates how the traditional classroom consists of teacher-centered lessons that require teachers to lecture about academic content and assign readings and questions for homework. The flipped classroom is drastically different because the academic content is learned at home through online videos. When students come to class the next day, they get to work on assignments, projects, and lab activities concerning learned content, while being facilitated by the teacher. There is also a flipped-mastery classroom model that is based on the idea of teachers ...