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Assessing during instruction is the key to more learning time. Set up your own assessments, use any device to collect data quickly and easily during regular class time without interrupting lessons.

"My students and I love Collaborize Classroom! They are much more involved, the quality of their work has improved and their discussions are more thoughtful because they've had time to work on it online before presenting it in class."

A flipped classroom (or flip teaching) reverses the traditional teaching methodology, giving students access to new material at home, usually via screen casting, while class time is used to assimilate this knowledge via debates, problem solving and critical thinking. When flipping a classroom, the teacher is able to offer more personalized guidance and interaction with students, instead of lecturing.

I've featured VideoNotes a few times over the last year because it is a good tool for building discussions around YouTube videos. It's a great tool, but it doesn't work with videos that aren't already hosted online. Vialogues is a free service that allows you to build online discussions around videos hosted online and videos that you have saved on your computer.

Due to Khan Academy's popularity, the idea of the flipped classroom has gained press and credibility within education circles. Briefly, the Flipped Classroom as described by Jonathan Martin is: Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures... for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done...

A flipped classroom (or flip teaching) reverses the traditional teaching methodology, giving students access to new material at home, usually via screen casting, while class time is used to assimilate this knowledge via debates, problem solving and critical thinking. When flipping a classroom, the teacher is able to offer more personalized guidance and interaction with students, instead of lecturing.

Jon Bergmann Teacher, Author, Speaker, Educational Consultant, Flipped Class Pioneer Editor's Note:This post was co-authored by Aaron Sams, Managing Director of FlippedClass.com and founding member of the Flipped Learning Network. The greatest benefit of flipped learning is the restructuring of class time, which is more of a pedagogical solution than a technological solution.

Google forms is one of the finest formative assessment tools on the market. Properly infused, this tool can transform a classroom environment where 'every child, every answer, every time' moves from philosophy to reality. This session will provide an overview of Google forms, the utilization of surveys for formative assessment, and how to share and graph the student data. BYOD and 1:1 implications will be discussed.