Blog 9

     "The Flipped Classroom" is a method in which the students are to learn the material at home and are already aware and comfortable with it before entering the classroom where the teacher is with them to help them practice it and master it with their assignments. I actually was apart of this type of learning in my geometry class in High school, and at first I was against the idea wondering why it was now up to me to teach myself and the teacher would become irrelevant but after a couple weeks I was realizing that the teacher was able to help more with students one on one and provide individual help for each student with whatever they found difficult. This way of learning also keeps students accountable for their own education and will give them more time to focus on mastering their homework more than they would have when the actual work part was meant to be done at home.
     Open educational resources are tools (or resources) that are available to teachers for free and can be edited and used in whichever ways they please to help them teach the students in their classrooms. I found this article called "OER: The Future of Education is Open" where it is discussing the importance that having open resources is for teachers providing education for students. They bring up points such as the price of textbooks which is a great point because if it were open resources then students would not have to decide what books are worth the price and if they can afford it which would affect their grades and overall understanding of the subject.
     New skills that I have learned from the powerpoint assignments are including buttons that allow you to go to the next slide within the powerpoint or adding videos from youtube straight into the powerpoint. This was especially essential for the game I was making in my assignment 5 powerpoint to jump from slide to slide. Here are pictures of my two assignments. I like the ability to remain creative while uploading information but I did not like how many different times I had to go to five different steps to include one thing that I would like and would have to repeat all those steps on every slide.