Flipped learning engaging apps

These past weeks we've been learning about the flipped classroom. For those who haven't heard about it yet, flipped learning is basically providing our students the necessary tools (videos, blogs, books...) to learn the theory by themselves at home and then put it into practice in class. So, the traditional lesson turns into a more practical one and the teacher needs more resources, time and competences. Flipped learning is awesome to foster independent learning and to make a good use of lessons' time.

There are plenty of apps and tools to flip our lessons. In class, we have already seen some to evaluate our students learning processs: Edpuzzle (to evaluate through video quizzes), Kahoot or Microsoft Forms. Symbaloo could be another as it would help us to upload resources for them to work at home. However, I want to write about three apps that I used as student and I think they are perfect to invert our lessons.

EXPLAIN EVERYTHING

I had an English teacher who used to send the lesson every week through 'Explain Everyting' videos. It is a whiteboard and you can record videos writing the lesson or even use it online, it is perfect for online lessons. Through Explain Everything you can also assign tasks and test your videos.

TES TEACH WITH BLENDSPACE

Another useful app for flipped classroom. Tes Teach is more like a social media in which teachers and students meet for learning. Anyone can add interesting resources and you can also create a private classroom with your students. There, you can upload tools and videos and ask them to create interactive lessons, as well.

POLL EVERYWHERE

And last but not least... Poll Everywhere is similar to Kahoot. It is a voting system through polls, but you can also include open-ended questions. This one is more useful for us, teachers, as we can check the answers and analyze them using charts.

These are some useful apps for flipped lessons, did you know them? Do you use anyother in your inverted classrooms? Please, share :)