For the flipped classroom or for blended learning, determining which content will be posted online may pose a challenge for the instructor. How to decide which content? Barbi Honeycutt shares with us some tips that she calls “flippable moments”. She suggests to analyze four moments as a guide to decide which content will better shared online for continuous access by our students.

Starting with the question “What should students DO to achieve the learning outcomes for this lesson?”, she suggests to analyze the following moments in a class to decide what materials should be online:

1. Look for confusion:
   “What’s the most difficult or challenging part of this lesson?” “Where do I anticipate students’ having problems or encountering difficulty?”
2. Look for the fundamentals:
   “What’s the most fundamental, most essential, and most critical part of today’s lesson?” “What MUST students know before they can move forward?”
3. Look at your extra credit question:
   “What makes this an extra credit question?” “How could I turn this extra credit question into an activity or project for all of the students?”
4. Look for boredom:
   “Are the students bored?” “Am I bored?”, put students to work on “what-if scenarios”

To read the full article, go to Looking for Flippable Moments in your Class (2013)