According to Alan Levine-New Media Consortium, "that's more or less when I don't know something I have a network of colleagues and people that I can put out my ignorance to they respond and help me out". Therefore, it's necessary and helpful to establish connections in our learning. Based on this claim, I joined Flipped Learning Network, which is a professional learning community for teachers using screencasting in education.
Flipped Learning Network is like other online communication communities such as blog, Facebook,etc. For instance, a user can invite friends and share ideas or videos there. However, as its name, the website is concentrated on flipped learning. After exploring the website, I think it has three main features: discussion forum, groups and videos. After signing in, we can join in the discussion forums we are interested in. There are a lot of discussion forums with certain topics, like Student Excuses, Flipped not working, etc. In addition, there are also many groups users can participate in. Obviously, groups are composed of some members, and the members of the same group have similarities with each other. For example, the members of the group Mathematics may be math teachers. Also, there are other groups like Middle School, First Time Flippers, etc. As for the last feature, videos, there are all kinds of videos about flipping teaching on the website, like How to flip a classroom, Prepare students for a flipped classroom. We can find out related videos according to our needs.
In sum, I think this social networking site is really helpful for teachers what to explore flipped learning.
This sounds like a very good group to participate in.
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