Blog #9: Flipped Classroom

A "Flipped Classroom" is a classroom that focuses on activites, exercises, projects, etc. in class. Students are expected to watch short lecture videos at home and come to class prepared to ask questions about the material they learned the night before. Students may also be asked to do short readings before coming to class. The textbook emphasizes blended learning as being very important to a student's success, particularly shy students. One great website to help create this kind of classroom is edX, which offers information/help with a variety of university classes. https://www.edx.org/

In this week's podcast, open education, open sources and open content are discussed. These all refer to content and sources educators can use and manipulate as much as they would like. Teachers can use this material to help enhance their classroom learning experience. One website (https://www.oercommons.org/) allows teachers to search for specific open education  resources, by typing in the subject area, grade level and the CPALMs standard. This can be very helpful in a future classroom!

The PowerPoint for Information Dissemination was a very time consuming and difficult project. I was extremely frustrated with the all of the requirements, but the hardest part was finding a website that seemed legit to download a template from. I ended up just downloading a template from the Microsoft website because I was so worried about the sketchy websites. However, I believe that this will be incredibly useful as a future educator. The most useful thing is knowing how to make a masterslide, which will be so helpful when making a long powerpoint for a lecture class. Not having to continuously reformat slides will save a lot of time.