The Flipped Classroom, OERs, and PowerPoint

The flipped classroom is as teaching method that basically introduces the material before class and then the class-time is used to understand the material better and answer any questions that might have arisen during individual study. This method has not really made it into many classrooms, but I feel like one of my classes in college is version of this flipped classroom. We do readings before we meet in class and then during our class time, we discuss what the reading was about and what our opinions were. I feel like this method might only work with classes such as English, history, and maybe science. I fell that math is such a formula and example subject that students need the instructional time in person rather than trying to do it on their own.

Open educational resources are resources that anyone can access and are usually available online. A blog site that I found while searching around for example is called oerhub. This blog has a vast collection of articles that provide research, current OER websites, and even job openings that are related to OERs. It is a great place to go if you are already acquainted with OERs and you would like to find some helpful websites that complied the ‘best’ OERs for your desired field. If you are not familiar with OERs, I suggest you try and find a more basic website that gives a little more background information about OERs and their uses.

While working on Assignment #4, one of the things I learned was how to record while on a PowerPoint. I have never had to do that before, so it was interesting to see how that function worked. It was very similar to using VoiceThread, but a little bit easier because you could present the information and record in the same place rather that inserting the PowerPoint into a different application. I kind of didn’t like writing a whole lesson out because it took a good hour or so to find all the information and then create the presentation and record the lesson, but it was good practice for further in my career. I have not completed Assignment #5 yet, but I will add more after I have completed that PowerPoint.

Assignment #4

On Assignment #5, I learned how to make one of the trivia games that I typically played in high school for review. It was a lot of tedious functions of setting up the navigation buttons and then figuring out how to make the slides work with the answers, so that took a long time. I kind of enjoyed making the game as it was fun to make a game like the ones I was so familiar playing.