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=Tips and Tools for the Flipped Classroom= **English Language Arts** “I flip all the redundant materials that are ‘time suckers’—like how to properly format your paper in MLA style,” says April Gudenrath, who teaches English at Discovery Canyon High School in Colorado. She also records her traditional lectures, including historical backgrounds, author biographies, themes, and motifs from the works that she assigns to her students. Thanks to flipping, Gudenrath can use class time for “amazing discussions about literature and in-class writing workshops that I have never had time for before.” To flip her classroom, Gudenrath relies on the following four technology products: Camtasia, YouTube, teachem, and Jing. She uses Camtasia to record 5- to 10-minute videos about her lectures, and then she exports the videos to YouTube or teachem, a site that lets her upload videos, add flash cards, and review questions. Gudenrath also uses Jing to record feedback on her students’ writing. For Gudenrath, time is the biggest challenge to delivering a flipped classroom. As she says, “Flipping your classroom takes a constant level of engagement that can be very tiring because of the research and content that you have to create prior to the lesson itself. However, it is worth it.” Since she started flipping, Gudenrath notes that she’s seen positive changes in her students. “I have seen huge improvements in engagement and test scores in both reading and writing on state, national, and international tests.”
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 * //In Gudenrath’s flipped English class, students try to find quotes to support their individual thesis statements.// ||

[|Click HERE to watch a video of this best practice in action.]

**Tools She Uses** • Camtasia

• Jing

• teachem

• YouTube

=Grammar -= April 24, 2013 By: Ozge Karaoglu

** Grammar is the one of the most important aspect of teaching and learning a language. It is also one of the more difficult aspects to teach well and motivate students to learn. Today, I would like to share some technology enhanced tools for practicing grammar. **

**[|Grammar Ninja] is a cool and a fun game that helps you practice parts of the speech. You can choose among three different levels to work. In the game, you choose the correct parts of the speech as you read each sentence. **

**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Road to Grammar] is a site that offers quizzes, games and extra practice for grammar with instant feedback and explanations. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Free Rice] is a game where you need to find the right definitions of the given words. For each right answer, the site donated 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">** <span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|NoRedInk] offers help with apostrophes, subject-verb agreement, comma issues, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and commonly confused words. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Adjective Detective] is another game that teaches you what the adjectives are. You can take the quiz and play the game. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Grammaropolis] is a tool to learn different parts of the speech. There are different characters that stand for an adverb, pronoun, preposition, noun, action verb etc. Those parts of the speech characters interact with each other just as they are interacting in a real sentence. You can watch videos of each character, take quizzes listen to the songs, read books that feature the characters and play games. You can play word sort or colour the characters. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">** The <span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Grammar Practice Park] offers different games on different parts of the grammar to play and practice your grammar skills. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Fun English Games] provides a range of free interactive exercises and practice activities that are perfect for helping students learn English **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Daily Grammar] offers grammar teaching tools that are about punctuation, parts of speech and the common mistakes in grammar. It consists of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|British Council] has many grammar games that provide fun activities to practice English with word order games, gap fill games. **