Camp Plug and Play 7.0: Flip Your Classroom
| Date: | June 11-15, 2012 |
| Registration: | June 11: 12:15-1:00pm |
| Event Time: | June 11: 1:00-5:15pm, June 12: 8:30-4:00pm, June 13: 8:30-4:45pm, June 14: 8:30-5:30pm, June 15: 8:30-12:00pm |
| Location: |
Westward Look 245 East Ina Rd Tucson, AZ 85704 |
| Cost: | $400.00 |
| Deadline: | May 23rd, 2012 |
Camp Plug & Play 7.0 offers a world-class professional development experience where participants dive into one of six topics for the week. Each strand is taught by knowledgeable and patient trainers who have a strong passion for empowering teachers and students with technology.
Registration includes your own room Monday until Friday and delicious breakfasts and lunches. Most importantly, you receive practical instruction and lots of hands-on time so that you leave with new knowledge, skills, and confidence to use what you’ve learned in your classroom.
The week kicks off with an inspirational keynote presentation by Wesley Fryer, author of Playing with Media. After the keynote, participants meet in their learning strands where they will spend the rest of the week learning and creating. In addition to direct instruction and work time, Camp Plug & Play offers evening breakout sessions about popular topics.
Another evening session is Ignite Night. Campers are invited to make five-minute presentations consisting of exactly 20 slides which are shown on the screen for exactly 15 seconds each.
To make sure the technology works smoothly, the Arizona K12 Center provides a MacBook for each participant to use during the day. Although you might not be a Macintosh user, what you learn at camp will certainly be applicable to computers running Windows.
Please watch for an email from the Arizona K12 Center in the weeks leading up to Camp Plug & Play for information about the camp's online social network, your learning strand, Ignite Night, and breakout sessions.
Camp Plug & Play is a great way to spend some of your summer! This is your opportunity to join a group of Arizona educators who, like you, are passionate about engaging today's students in their learning.
Flip Your Classroom
No technology can replace a teacher’s face-to-face interaction with her students. But, suppose you’re starting a new unit on how to find the area of a triangle. Your students walk into class that day having already seen several Web-based videos that you created on how to find the area of a triangle. Such is life in the Flipped Classroom!
In the Flipped Classroom, the teacher uses technology tools to transform direct instruction into visual homework. Students access this homework on computers or mobile devices. When students step into the physical classroom, they already have the foundation to ask questions, practice skills, or collaborate on projects.
In Flip Your Classroom, you will:
* See examples of flipped classroom lessons
* Become a student in a flipped classroom
* Create an Edmodo account for the Flip Your Classroom group
* Use screencasting software
* Plan, organize, and create at least one flipped lesson that you can take back to your classroom
* Upload your lesson to the Web using Dropbox
