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When I began the process of flipping my classroom I spent a lot of time thinking about how I could help my students engage with math content at home in ways that did not look or feel like "traditional" homework. According to a homework survey I gave students, 31% were not attempting homework at all. In order to ensure they were prepared for the rigor of their future math classes, I knew that I needed to address this problem immediately.

When asked why they were not doing homework, students responded that they did not remember how to do certain skills by the time they got home and that they did not find the current homework helpful. Creating video based math tutorials that my students would engage with at home, in place of more traditional worksheets, was a way for me to address both of these concerns.

Seeing material at home and being able to re-watch, slow down, rewind and pause instruction was a powerful change for my students who needed more time to process material. Here I will show you the tools that I used to create this tutorial videos.

Show Me

ShowMe is a powerful Ipad app that allows you to not only turn your device into a digital white board but will allow content creators the power to record voice-over while also being able to annotate over slides, PDFs, videos and photos.

Once content is created it can easily be posted online and shared with students or downloaded to a device such as a laptop in order to be used in class as a visual aid.

I found the process of creating video tutorials greatly simplified with the use of this app.

Examples of created content

Creating videos and hosting them on the ShowMe app is easy to do. Here is an example of a tutorial video I created that showcases the voice over and annotation capabilities of the app. I was able to easily upload one of my lecture slideshows and walk students through the content.

My students are so used to using YouTube that it made the most sense to post videos on that platform. It was very easy to save videos from the ShowMe app to my laptop and then upload them to my YouTube channel. Posting the video link in my ECHO agenda made it so that students never had to search to hard for the video when they needed it.

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Click this link to go directly to my YouTube page where my tutorial videos are hosted

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