Flipping Professional Development with Canvas Studio

[Mark_Sluzky]

A growing trend in adult learning has been to engage learners through a “Flipped Classroom” model of instruction. Instead of a lecture or other direct instruction, staff engage with content prior to professional development or staff meetings. Staff can participate in activities, discussions, inquiry and have the opportunity of learning asynchronously. If you are looking for ways to increase the little time you have with your staff, using a ‘flipped’ technique might just be the trick.

Canvas Studio is a phenomenal interactive tool that leaders can use to make their messages even more engaging, and gives them a tool with which to communicate before meetings. Your time together as a staff can be spent working together, relationship building, and sharing experiences/resources.

Studio allows facilitators to quickly and easily create, upload, manage, and share multi-media content with their staff. Import content from YouTube or model expectations by creating screencasts or webcams to walk participants through professional development, demonstrations, or expectations. Directions can be given or work submitted as a video quickly and easily with Studio. Creating or importing the content is just the first step of how Studio can support you and your team. Once the media is in Canvas Studio, course creators have a wide range of tools to use including:

• Insights: Hold participants accountable with Studio Insights. This feature allows facilitators to see how a participant interacts with the media. Have they watched it? How many times? What parts? Find all that and more with Studio Insights.
• Quizzes: Create assessments right in the media. Studio Quizzes are great for ensuring that participants have learned the required content. Use it as a tool to help participants review or as a formative or summative assessment. Studio Quizzes can provide instant feedback to the participants and valuable data to the facilitator.
• Annotation: Make sure participants know what to look for. Annotations in Studio allow facilitators to create notecards with content that pause video and focus attention on key information.
• Collections: Organize your media with Studio Collections. Collections are user created folders that media can be placed into. Share collections with other Studio users with a few clicks.

These are just a few of the many ways that Studio can be leveraged to support the development of dynamic professional development learning opportunities.