Page Orientation the Flipped Class way!

We have recently completed a workshop on Flipped Classroom presented by ICT4Red. The principal idea of flipped classroom is being able to send a recording or short video "lecture" home that your students can watch and then prepare themselves for their next lesson. This will then free up class time to do exercises, projects and more in depth learning as they already have the background knowledge necessary for the lesson.

This is a great idea for High schools, and students that have internet and devices that allow for this pedagogy to work! However, how would one use this for younger learners and in schools where students are limited! We will chat about this later as we blog more ideas and lessons.

Thinking out of the box when using TECHNOLOGY in your classroom in KEY! Teachers need to step out of their comfort zone and embrace it!

So this is how I used the concept of flipped classroom recently as a Technology Integration Specialist.

The other day I was asked if it was possible to have both Landscape and Portrait page orientation in one document. YES, YOU CAN!

This is great to have in Microsoft Word when you are doing a presentation and you need to add a large graph that needs to be landscape but, all your other information needs to be in Portrait.

Using a FREE software called Screencast-O-Matic  I recorded the instructions as well as a visual instruction of how to change the orientation. I then saved the video and Skyped it to my colleague.



* Click on the image to watch the video.
* I have included the link to download the free software as well as a link to ICT4Red