Is this it?

How do I put the new post under a specific tab?

I still haven't gotten my finalized teaching assignment for this year which makes the task of creating a flipped classroom seem even more impossible. I don't know what I'm flipping!! However, I have pretty much decided that I will definitely flip Algebra 1. I have taught A1 for several years now and I know that if it goes horribly and I need to ditch it I am familiar enough with the content that I can adapt most easily.
This week I am going to work on a general syllabus as well as a parent letter explaining the flipped classroom. I also want to figure out where I'm going to host my videos and practice setting up a class website.
Better get to work!

Starting to Flip

I haven't touched this blog since taking a technology class 2 summers ago. I thought the technology class was cool but I didn't really have the motivation or the knowledge to implement a lot of the material. I hope all of that is about to change. This spring I was looking into ways to connect with my students (and parents) using some of the readily accessible technology that they're already using. I was looking into how to use Twitter to post assignments or even just connect with students outside of class without giving them my phone number when I came across something very interesting. "The Flipped Classroom Model" I read everything I could get my hands on during the last month or so of school and enrolled in a virtual conference (which I have yet to watch) and purchased the recently released book on the topic. I'm not sure that I've ever been so convinced by a method or pedagogy. In summer, flipping your classroom is changing the in class lectures to at home videos and the "homework problems" to class work. The benefit of this is that students who are absent can get the same lesson. Students who are slower can rewind and watch multiple times and students who never do their homework will at least be able to catch some of the content and some of the practice because there is a lot more class time devoted to work time.
I have a couple of strikes against me, however. #1 I just accepted a position at a brand new school. I don't really know what I'm walking into and at this point (1 month before school starts) I don't even have a definite schedule. This is huge.
#2 There is so much information available on this topic that it's almost overwhelming. I'm reading through the book as I mentioned above and it's giving me some practical steps to get started. Just start with whatever you have and record it. So I think that's what I'm going to do.
It has been suggested in a variety of that blogging in order to organize thinking and reflecting is a good idea. So that is why I am starting this back up again. Feel free to read if you want, but this is largely just for me.

Things to figure out:
1.   How to record - specifically audio
2.  Where and how to get videos to kids - what site? Blog? etc.
3.  Tablet for writing on - I was told at the interview that I would receive and ipad and there was a program available to make it like the tablet slate that I am used to. If this is not the case I am prepared to purchase the equipment myself.

I shall limit myself to 3 things to work on. If I do more than that I know my mind will get carried away and I will have many more sleepless nights in my future!