Completing our first Flipped PD

Our group assignment for CEP812 was to develop a Flipped Professional Development seminar that we could / will present to our own faculty at some point.  I intend to present it on May 1 this year. 

Here is the link to the finished video.  It is quite comprehensive and instructive, and though it tops out at a little over 20 minutes, it is broken up into topics that are each about 2-3 minutes each.  A menu system is built into the video allowing the viewer to jump from topic to topic or skip basic topics if they are already an advanced user. 

The one thing that we considered adding, and I may do it before the May 1 training, is Closed Captioning... This would add an additional UDL piece to the trainng artifact.  We just ran out of time for this assignment and had to render what we had in the  can, as it were. 

Take a look at the video and the associated documents and forms we have created around our concept. 

Flipped PD - Learning with Google Docs

Learning with Google Docs Feedback Form

Pre-Assessment

Fliped PD Agenda

Post-Assessment

I will be presenting this Flipped PD session to my faculty on May 1.  The plan is to email blast the entire faculty with links to the Pre-assessnent, the Flipped PD Feedback form and the Flipped PD Video and tell them they have to do the pre-assessment, watch the Flipped PD video and fill out the feedback form before our May 1 PD meeting. 

During the face to face meeting, I am going to model the use  of Google Docs and will also be modeling th use of Nearpod as a platform to push info to the teachers, who all have iPad's at their disposal.  We will talk about the purpose of the day, the results from the Pre-assessment survey, in broad terms, and finally, to give them their group assignments.  The will be breaking up into collaborative groups of 3-4 (30 total) and will each be given an object-oriented assignment to research, put their results into a group shared Google Doc and format it in a way they can present their findings back to the whole group.  This will help reinforce the use of Google docs.  I will be walking from group to group giving guideance and answering questions to help keep them moving along.  Once all the groups have presented their findings, we will all take the Post-assessment.

Finally, the Participant feedback form ends with a place each teacher can record any questions that remain in regard to the access to and the use of a Google doc for themselves, but more importantly, in their classroom with their students.  I will meet with each teacher one on one in the following month and will address any lingering issues.

I believe that this Flipped PD format will be well received... and will strengthen my relationship to the staff who have not embraced my roll as Ed Tech Consultant yet.