Blog Post #9

The flipped classroom reverses the usual classroom model. In the usual model the teacher instructs while in the classroom and homework is completed at home. In the flipped model the students watch an instructional video at home and then when they arrive to class they complete assignments for reinforcement. A good source for educational videos would be the Crash Course Youtube channel. This channel provides videos relating to all sorts of academic topics from the digestive system to the Revolutionary war. Here is an example of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBfpBPELmE

Open education is about making education available to audiences all over. Open content says what people can and cannot do with online materials. They are allowed to use the four R's: revise, reuse, remix, redistribute. Open source refers to software whose source code is available for anyone to access. Moodle is a good example of an open source site. It provides teachers with a platform to create a personalized learning environment for their classes. The software is advertised as being safe and open source. https://moodle.org/

I learned how to do animations and transitions. I always thought they looked cool but I did not know how to put them in a presentation myself. I also learned how to make a nonlinear power point. Whenever teachers made jeopardy games for class I was always baffled. I had no idea how to format the slides in the correct way, so now I am grateful to know. I liked making the lesson in the first assignment. It was good practice, and it showed me how long it takes to prepare a lecture's powerpoint. The only thing I did not like was formatting a lesson on a topic that I did not know a lot about. In the second assignment, the quiz, I enjoyed making it just because I think that quizzes are fun. The only thing that I did not like was how tedious it was to try and link all of the slides together in the correct manner.

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Sadly we did not tour a lab :( so I really cannot say anything about that experience.

A lesson for Blooms taxonomy that I would implement would be on some sort of crisis in history, that each student would get to use and make a report on. For creating I would just have students create the powerpoint with their potential ides, and have them present it to the class so that they could get some advice. For evaluating they would defend each of their choices to the best of their ability so that their peers know which topics would they be strongest topic in discussing. For analyzing they would find another similar historical phenomenon and compare it to the topic they chose (they can use powerpoint to display this). For apply they would explain how they would have solved the crisis. For understand they would write a short essay on their crisis identifying reasons why the issue arose and how it was solved, they can paste this essay in bullet form onto the slides. For remember they would have a short answer test where they would have to list out the causes, effects, and times of the crisis on to slides with the internet turned off and they would paste these into a powerpoint.

This site shows live updates on technology innovations. You can select the tabs on the right to filter your results. This site shows all different types of technology and some of it is actually really advanced and interesting such as 3D printed cheese or spy technology.

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Adaptive technologies are meant to help students with disabilities to use technology. They can help students to read screens better, or even help them to navigate the web when they do not have the physical capability to use a mouse.  They can also be used by teachers to help them to create assignments for blind students, though the use of braille printers. These technologies help students to be involved in every aspect of classroom learning, no matter their ability level. I have never known anyone who used these technologies, just because at my schools usually these learners were separated. Cost may be an issue, since some of these technologies could be expensive. Another challenge could be teachers not knowing how these technologies work and therefore not being able to help their students.

From the Web Page design assignment I learned how to organize information in an a way that is easy to read and understand. I also learned what things might typically need to be shared with students, and how a web page can help teachers to keep parents and students up to date. The only thing I didn't like was the time it took to create the page and become familiar with all of the functions of weebly. Next time I could probably make the design portion better and nail down a better theme because I will be more familiar with the software. In the future I will definitely use this to post assignments, updates, and announcements for parents, students and other teachers to see.
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From Diigo I have learned how to bookmark pages. I have also learned how to use the tagging system to organize those webpages I also learned to use the tags so that other teachers can find them. I have also learned to annotate the main ideas of an article so that others can understand it more easily, and don't have to read the whole thing. I have also used the comment feature to comment on links that other classmates have posted. This application will be useful when I am a teacher because it will help me to save links that I may find useful later on. Teammates can also share and see my bookmarks. This will be helpful in the classroom because students can use it to share helpful links and sources for reports in topics such as science and history. They can also learn how to highlight the main ideas of passages through the annotating feature.