Blog Post 9

The flipped classroom is blended delivery model that is currently gaining a following in K-12 & postsecondary education. This model is an outgrowth of educational vodcasting, aka education video cast, of content. It was first promoted by teachers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergman of Woodlands Park High School in Woodland Park, Colorado. This method began by making lectures available online to students. From there it expanded to "flipping" the way students and teachers spend their time in the classroom. In this model, students listened to prerecorded video lectures for homework before coming into class the next day, changing it up from the usual lecture style lessons. This method caused students to work on group or individual activities in effort to gain a better understanding of the material. This method lead to the creation of various different methods that utilize educational technology in today's modern classroom. I think the best example of the kind of videos utilized for these classrooms are crash course. When ever I had a class that utilized this kind of method, these are the type of videos we used. https://www.youtube.com/crashcourse

Open Source is a term that basically refers to software, more specifically the programming or coding of the software is being referring by the word open. Open Source Software is software whose source code is made available for anyone to access, allowing software developers to modify programs for particular use or to add new features. The community of developers and users has grown around a lot of open source programs. People may turn to open source software when they are working with a limited budget because most Open Source Software is free. Open Source Software really gain grown with the rise of the internet, which lead to a massive retooling of computing source codes. The Open Source Software movement arose to clarify the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created. When looking up this term, I found a lot of useful websites that might come into use in future teaching situation such as Azure and OpenOffice. Both website provided details of the open source material and the uses it has. http://download.openoffice.fm/get/openoffice.php?aid=controlinline&source=bing

I feel that the second power point assignment was a lot more helpful in developing my PowerPoint skills then the first one was. When I was doing the second assignment I was learning a lot more interesting skills to creating a PowerPoint like skipping out of order on slides, disabling the clicking/pressing the space bar, and the one I found to be the most interesting which was the mouse over feature. This feature basically makes it able to go to the next slide by moving the mouse over an object on the current slide. On the first assignment, I didn't really find anything to be new except for the recording the lecture feature. In fact, that's probably what I liked most about the first assignment, recording the PowerPoint. It really help me realize where I am public speaking wise. What I liked most about the second assignment was being able to make a create-your-own-adventure story through PowerPoint. I really liked this because it let me utilize the action feature that would allow me to skip to any slide I wanted. What I didn't like about both assignments was trying to involve 4 or more slide layouts. I found this to be very difficult since I had a strong idea of what I wanted to do for both assignment. What I would improve upon in the first assignment is vocal presentation. I felt like I stuttered and messed up a lot with my pronunciation. What I would improve up in the second assignment is the presentation. I wish I could used better imagery when creating my slides.