Using Educanon to Flip Your Clasroom

I have been semi-flipping my classroom for quite some time now.  I find great videos online and then send links to my students to watch as homework.  This allows the next day to serve as a workshop where I can both help and challenge students in my classroom.  One of my goals this year, is for myself to make the videos instead of finding them.  I do feel that many times the videos I find on Khan academy explain it better than I do, but there are other times where I feel there could be a better way to approach the content.  I also feel some of my students are more comfortable and prefer my own videos over Khan.  You should also know, most my students say they like that I switch the video sources every couple days, so that it's not the same person or voice teaching them that night in the video.  I will usually switch between Khan, myself, and other teacher made videos I find on educanon.  

If you haven't worked with educanon yet, it truly is something I'm starting to be a fan of.  They allow you to upload videos that you have created for your students.  You can then add questions in the middle of the videos for students to respond as they are watching the video.  This allows me to monitor their understanding as they are watching the video, and it also allows me to know if they actually watched the video at home.

Having students watch videos at home is allowing me to use my 44 minute period in a better way than I had been.  Students are able to move around the room working on different application activities.  I can plan more application and challenging activities that allow them to work in groups and talk about their reasoning with their peers inside the classroom.  

Here is a great example of how you can take videos and add questions for student responses.
Let me know how you use educanon in your classroom!