Blog Post 9

"The Flipped Classroom" is essentially a classroom where the "homework" is to listen to prerecorded lectures from the teacher and the "classwork" is engaging and actively working with the content learned. This is done to deepen the understanding of the content and allow for students to work along side of the teacher. This way, the teacher can better guide students with their work and understanding of the knowledge rather than just using class time to talk at the class. A good source of educational videos to help teach a flipped classroom is Khan Academy.
https://www.khanacademy.org

Open education is education that is open to majority of people. They are typically offered online for free. You do not have to be enrolled in any university to take advantage of the class. It allows everyone to have access to education and breaks down monetary barriers. Some examples are Khan Academy and Coursera.
https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-education
Open content is downloadable instructional materials that are available to the public for free online. It is important to follow copyright and distribution guidelines when using ones content. It is also important to remember that things online can be changed by nearly anyone; however, if your school district adopts an online/open text, it can maintain a version that can only be edited by certain selected people.
https://funnymonkey.com/2010/using-open-content-to-drive-educational-change
Open source refers to software. The use of open source education software can help to reduce costs and stay within budgets. There are open source versions of programs that are often free to use and download and similar to software that is usually very pricey to use. For an example, Open Office is comparable to Microsoft Office. Some more examples of helpful open source programs are RedNotebook (calendar based journal for organization), ownCloud (private file sharing server), FocusWriter (used for keeping students on task while at a computer), etc.
https://opensource.com/education/15/8/5-back-school-open-source-programs-2015

The first assignment was relatively boring to me. This is just because I have worked with PowerPoint so many times that I really did not learn anything new. If I were to do the project again I would choose different and more colorful pictures in order to capture students attention better. For the second assignment, I learned how to create buttons and make a non-linear PowerPoint. I had never done anything like that before so that assignment was almost all completely new to me. I think I completed the project pretty smoothly; however, if I had more time, I would have made something more exciting than a quiz. For example, I could have made a Jeopardy game.

First Assignment

Second Assignment