Blog Journal 9

Flipped Classroom is a newer teaching strategy that allows for the classroom to become the place where questions are asked, and concepts are furthered instead of taught for the first time. Students would watch videos of their teacher’s lecture online and then come to class the next day and ask questions on material they didn’t understand or needed more clarification on. While I think in a perfect world this would be a good idea to implement this sort of teaching in more school settings, I think it is highly unrealistic. It would be a good idea for teachers to record their lessons and post somewhere online just in case someone is absent, or a student can watch the video while studying and then ask more questions, but it should not be the primary source of gaining the information. Many students either don’t have the time after school or don’t want to find the time after school to watch instructional videos. Many teachers also do not have the time to record those videos. This approach may work at other schools but in many middle and high schools this would not work.

OER is a resource that teachers can use to share educational resources with fellow educators for free. Resources that are included in OER are textbooks, tests, course materials, and many more. The link I have provided is an article about what OER is and how it can benefit teachers and students. The website is also a place where you can find OER resources. It also gives more examples of what kind of resources teachers can obtain when using OER. Further down on the website, there are reasons why educators to chose OER, such as the fact that it improves student learning while also saving money and a few other reasons. https://lumenlearning.com/about/whats-oer/

While working on both PowerPoint assignments, I learned a lot about the software that I didn’t know existed before. I gained the skills of being able to record a lesson with the PowerPoint, of adding actions onto pictures and icons to go to a different slide, and how to create a trigger for animations. While I now have the skill of audio recording a presentation with a slideshow, I didn’t really care for the assignment because it was kind of awkward to listen back to it and figure out what kind of tone I should be using. I also though achieving a High Pass with that assignment was a lot more difficult than previous assignments so that is why I did not achieve that in my opinion.  I really liked creating the Assignment 5 and I really think I could do something similar to that again when I have my own classroom in a few years. In the future, I could improve on my design skills.