Media is very influential. Educators see how especially our pre-teens and teens are drawn into social media like TikTok and such, and sometimes get influenced into doing things that they can get into trouble for. In EDLD 5317, we were tasked with creating our own media projects that can help influence other educators to implement projects similar to those innovation projects that we have been working on since EDLD 5305. Hopefully all of our media pieces will combine to influence others by bringing in logical appeal, emotional appeal, and cooperative appeal like Harold Scharlatt (2011) mentioned in his Forbes article.

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Our first project was to outline a potential article that we could write and submit to a journal or online blog site. My first outline focused the article in on my experiences of flipping a math classroom at the beginning, but I got hit by Covid which derailed my flipped classroom from starting. I had to change my focus instead to how to design a flipped classroom which still allowed me to share the research I had found on best practices in the flipped classroom.

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My article is titled "Flipping for Algebra: How to Design a Flipped Classroom for Algebra 1." In the article, I discuss why I want to use a flipped classroom in my algebra 1 classes, I give the potential benefits of flipping, and five steps to designing a flipped classroom. My article will not be present on my ePortfolio for now because I am planning on submitting it to NCTM's new publication Mathematics Teachers Learning and Teaching to see if it can be a feature article for the 9-12 grade band. They ask for new strategies and such, so I think that I have a chance to maybe get my article in there. I had research compiled for three different literature reviews from the DLL program, so there was plenty of material to choose from. One thing that made things different was that I am used to an APA style of citations and such, and the NCTM uses Chicago style. I had to find the guidelines for it and make the changes necessary.

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The other media piece that I wasn't so sure about was the podcast. Writing to me is a little easier than having to speak to others about a topic. Robyn Tompkins and I decided to work together since we both teach high school math and have similar topics. (Check out her innovation plan here.) We created a podcast called "Flipping Out Over Math." It has three episodes. The first episode has our reasons why we want to flip along with the benefits of flipping. The second episode has advice on designing a flipped classroom along with some of the things we've ran across while trying. The final episode has an interview with Nina Berry Gallow, a co-worker of Robyn's, that is flipping her algebra 1 classes already. She had some great insights on how to get buy-in from parents and how to motivate students to do their "homework" of watching the videos. It took a while to pull it all together, but I think the results are good. To listen to our podcast, please click on the icon below.