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.