Blog Post #9

1. The "Flipped Classroom" is basically all that the name suggests. The order in which things are done in the classroom is reversed, meaning that the outside of class work that is required is done before attending the class as well as the instruction. In class, activities and interaction is performed with classmates. Vanderbilt University's website suggests that flipping the usual processes of the classroom allows for lower cognitive processing to occur outside of the classroom and this allows for the higher level cognitive processing to occur in the classroom. The website provides a lot of useful information on the "Flipped Classroom".
2.  The podcast detailed the terms Open Education, Open Source, and Open Content. First, Open Education refers to making educational material accessible to a vast amount of people. When I think of this, I think of the articles that are published on the FSU Libraries website for all FSU students to access. Next, Open Source is free software. This concept reminds me Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Internet Explorer because these are all free software that can be downloaded on a computer. Lastly, Open Content is anything that is distributed for use but sometimes requires modification. I think of when you're filtering through Google Images and you can select "Labeled for Reuse", "Labeled for Reuse with Modification", or the other options it displays when you filter for usage rights. More information on "Open" terms can be found here.
3. The PowerPoint assignments were a lot of fun to me, just like the newsletter and website assignments were. I liked getting to design them and make up a lesson. I had no idea that you could set up a slideshow to use the hyperlinks to get from one slide to another. I'm glad that I was able to learn that because I think it is great knowledge to have in the classroom especially with how technologically advanced classrooms are getting. I can imagine setting up a slideshow like this and projecting it onto a Smart Board and letting students do activities that way. As I didn't like about the newsletter and website assignments, these PowerPoint presentations were also very time consuming. The first one was extremely time consuming because it required so much information to be input and the second one was more tedious because of all of the hyperlinks that you had to insert.
   

   

   It was really challenging to record myself presenting this presentation because I kept going over the time limit. My first recording was eleven minutes and I was able to get my second recording down to six or seven minutes. I don't know if I put too much information into the presentation of if I just don't talk fast enough.

   
   

I don't like how the interactive PowerPoint title slide came out because it looks too busy to me, but I loved how it went along with the FSU theme colors.