This is a nice model of exactly what we should be doing in the second half of the school year to promote more uses of ActivInspire and ActivExpressions.
What's the approach?
The students watch pre-recorded lectures the night before the class, when homework problems are traditionally done, then spend the time in class getting answers to questions, working on additional problems with partners, and getting one-on-one assistance from the teacher. No more lectures in class
How Backward Learning Works Roshan uses Microsoft PowerPoint to recreate problems from each chapter of the textbook. She turns on Camtasia and begins talking her way through the solution to the problem. "I'm just capturing my screen and my voice," she said. The recordings, which she edits and posts to a school-hosted site, a Camtasia-hosted site, as well as to iTunes, run between 10 and 30 minutes long. So far she's made 32 of them, covering six chapters in the book.
I'm going to use this with Brunswick Elementary. They have four sets of ActivExpressions and a set of ActiVotes. This handout will serve as an introduction since I don't have time to create a new one right now.