Blog #9

The "Flipped Classroom" is a relativity new approach to teaching wherein the students prepare and teach themselves much of the material, so that they are prepared in class the next day to ask questions and go deeper into the material. Students are assigned readings, homework, and other interactive tasks to introduce them to the material as well as start building their understanding in class the next day as the teacher assists them more than instructs. I had this design in high school and I found it ineffective, it left many students lost and behind, having no introduction to complex material and being expected to learn and understand immediately was quite difficult.

Open Educational Resources are textbooks, worksheets, lesson plans, and other miscellaneous resources that are open to use for free, with no paywall blocking access. This means these resources are open to students, teachers, and researchers to use for no cost, eliminating the burden of finances on these groups. The page I have linked is a sub group of the bigger web database of the OER Commons. This page is specifically for High School teachers of English.  OER COMMONS

I had not known about the disabling mouse clicks, and I had never had the idea to do an non-linear PowerPoint. I learned a lot more about how to use PowerPoint as well as new ideas to use in the classroom to make my lessons more engaging. What I don't like it the features, in most if not all PowerPoints I will make, they will be linear, and the skills will not be needed. While reminding myself of how to do particular parts, I saw a reason to have it this way, if you are presenting in a more public forum, like a trade show, or for the classroom, at an activity table, it makes sure the slideshow doesn't get messed up. For my information Powerpoint, I was happy with it all, and same for the Jeopardy. I was proud of all the work I had to do for the Jeopardy. Next time I would work on some of the formatting, making it look better and more like the show.