Taking attendance with Flipd is a fun and creative way to engage students during your lecture. Before class begins, you can create unique attendance codes that are a word, phrase, or even an answer to a quiz question, which students must enter into the Flipd app to be marked as present.'

When you're considering technology for your lectures, an important and often overlooked aspect is how customizable the product is. Whether it's an engagement tool, an LMS, or a digital textbook, some questions you might ask yourself include:

Tools that measure audience engagement are abundant on the internet —  sites like Google Analytics measure how long we spend on a website, which pages pique interest more than others, and what content engages its readers most effectively. But what about in the classroom? Measuring whether you have captured an engaged audience isn't quite so simple.

Boredom – it's a growing problem that's competing with the college curriculum, and one that has given way to a breed of new technologies and educational engagement strategies that claim to evade the classroom of its presence. But a debate has emerged around whether technology is distracting students, is the college undergraduate curriculum too overwhelming given our modern advancements, or is student boredom a symptom of a larger issue facing higher education?

In this guest blog post, Britt from Tiny Ambitions shares six steps to quickly and easily unplug from tech in your every day life. 

This article is part of our Teacher Series with Hilliard City District in Ohio. Leading educators take to the Flipd Blog to share why digital wellness matters.