flipped classroom

The Other Side of the Coin: Designing Meaningful Active Learning Exercises for your Classroom

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So, you've flipped your class, now what? The magic in flipping a class isn't all in how the videos are created, what they look like, or where they're embedded.  The value in a flipped classroom comes from the time saved by moving lectures outside of the in-person time.  But how can we take full advantage of this "extra" time in the classroom?  This engaging, hands-on presentation will cover the following:

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Transforming The First Year of Law School with TheFirstYear Project: A Cognitive Approach to Blended Learning in Legal Education

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In order to design effective videos for use in a blended classroom, we can turn to multimedia theory to inform our development.  Our approach has been validated by our successful flipping of the first year Contracts course. We're leveraging our educational design team to create TheFirstYear.org, an ambitious, open resource for faculty and students to blend, flip, and supplement their first year of law school.  By attending this presentation you will:

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Time slot: 
20 June 13:00 - 14:00
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WCC 2009

Thinking Outside the Book: Legal Research Instruction

Legal research and other skills instructors who adopt online textbooks can not only write their own text, they can also incorporate various mediums such as images, videos, and quizzes.  In addition to being a more interactive type of learning, when students read about legal research strategies and resources and watch demos of databases before class, it frees up valuable class time to practice their research skills.  In this session, we will discuss why an online textbook that you create can better serve the needs of your students; describe our implementation process and the variou

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Time slot: 
20 June 16:00 - 17:00
Room: 
WCC 2019

Going Hollywood on Your Desktop: Creating Great Screen Capture Video

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Virtual Handout available at: http://jillasmith.com/law-library-blogging/virtual-handout-cali-2014/
The presentation exceeds the maximum upload limit for the conference website, but you can download it here: https://georgetown.box.com/s/jknlwhgr2ihv40adn3es

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Time slot: 
21 June 09:00 - 10:00
Room: 
WCC 2019
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