My flipped classroom webinar experience

My prof for my morning class made our class a webinar. Though I was happy to not have to get up a 6am in order to get down to wolfville in time for my morning class, I am not 100% sure I enjoyed the webinar experience.

Because I wanted to make the most of my morning, aside from the webinar, I still got up early and got in my 10km run. This got my head into a great space and I was then ready to sit down for the 3 hours webinar (groan).

I used this opportunity to think a lot about space and the flipped classroom. I did enjoy being in my home space ( a place I have created to reflect myself and an environment that I enjoy). I found myself working on my deck. This is one of my favourite spaces because I love being outside, love my gardin, and enjoy the sounds of nature that flow in and out of this space. However, once I began the webinar, my mood slowly lower, my eyes got heavy and all energy I gained from my run slipped away.

This is when I really began to reflect on space. Though I was in a space that I loved, the monotone voices coming from the glowing screen on my computer were sucking the enjoyment out of everything! It was at this point that my attention wondered, and I began writing this blog post.

I am now thinking about about the ecology of space ( though we have not discussed this yet in class) I feel as though I have stumbled upon a great example of how online space (the delivery of a webinar for example) and how this type of space needs to be delivered in a visually pleasing, tactile if possible, and engaging way. Time is also a key factor. A 3 hour webinar is WAY too long! It's important to consider the attention span of your audience with creating a lesson for the flipped classroom.  Although my webinar was prerecorded and I could pause it when ever I wanted to take a break ( like I did to make my amazing kale smoothy - kale, mint, pineapple, chia seeds, and almond milk) my desire to return after every break was non existent.

So, my webinar may not have taught me anything about about its topic, but it certainly had me thinking a lot about space.