Tuesday, April 4, 2017

The flipped classroom idea is really cool! I kind of had something like this in high school and it was honestly the most helpful way to learn. My math teacher would have us do the homework unit first and then learn the lesson that day. That way, you grapple with the homework and textbook first, and if it was easy to do, then the lesson was easy and fast to learn in class. But if the lesson was hard, our teacher would work out some example problems with us and all the light bulbs would eventually go off on our heads. Somehow trying to understand the information first for yourself is actually really helpful. The initial confusion and trying to figure out how to understand a problem helps you retain the solving process better, I think. Here's a video from Khan Academy about flipping your classroom! It's short so it's worth a little of your time! https://www.khanacademy.org/resources/using-technology-in-the-classroom/four-different-blended-learning-models/v/sscc-blended-flipped

So I searched for open content and I found this really cool website! The home page looks really simple but when you click on the links it literally has everything you could ever want to know about open content. There's a definition, a blog about it, a game, and a lot more! It would definitely be handy to have for your own future classroom.

I definitely learned a lot from both assignments. I love the hyperlink functions because it makes navigating through the slides kind of fun! I did already know how to use transitions and animations and such but this was really helpful in putting everything into a cohesive powerpoint. Also I did not know that you could disable keyboard clicking so that's really neat and makes powerpoints very interactive. Also, my first powerpoint was from the Spanish presentation that I had to do this semester so I gave the presentation in Spanish, haha. Here's my first presentation:


 And here's my interactive quiz for AS6! It took a while to make but I'm really proud of it.


Well that's it for this week! See you all next week!






3 comments:

  1. We had totally different experiences with the flipped classroom, but I'm glad your teachers were able to implement it correctly! Your PowerPoints look awesome! Great post!

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  2. Hi Christina! I like how you included your own personal experience with the flipped classroom because it helped me to better understand what a "flipped classroom" actually was!

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  3. I like your comments and your personal experience with the flipped classroom. I think this is what my German classes are doing too, I guess its growing into college too now.

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