Blog Post 9

   The Flipped Classroom is a new way for teachers to present material to students. The Flipped Classroom allows students to better grasp the material, allowing the different needs of each student to be better addressed. In a flipped classroom, students watch videos of the lesson on their own time at home, allowing some students to pause and rewind to review material as needed, while other students who have a better understanding of the material can go through a lesson quickly. Then, during the school day, students are able to receive feedback and help students wherever they need it.
    "Open Education" allows learners from all areas of the world and all socioeconomic statuses to be able to attend courses and learn from an educational institution at their own pace and on their own time. There are a number of open courses available from websites like OER Commons. "Open Content" allows teachers to make changes to certain pieces of available material in their classroom. A popular example of open content is Teachers Pay Teachers, a website where teachers can share their classroom ideas and materials with other teachers, who can then purchase and modify these materials to best suit their classroom.  "Open Source" is software that is available for anyone to access, so that a software can be improved by a community of users seeking the function that a specific software serves. An example of an open source software includes the educational platform Moodle.
     I enjoyed the two PowerPoint assignments. I learned how to link to different slides within a presentation, to make the PowerPoint more engaging and flexible for every student to use. I especially liked PowerPoint assignment 2, because I enjoyed being able to create a presentation that felt more like a fun game than a traditional PowerPoint slideshow. I will definitely be using the skills learned from these assignments throughout college and in my own classrooms when I am a teacher.

PowerPoint 1: Information Dissemination (The Water Cycle)

PowerPoint 2: Interaction (Jeopardy Game)