Blog Journal 9

The "flipped classroom" in this context refers to the practice of "flipping" classroom and home-learning activities. Under this routine, classroom activities focus more on using and applying knowledge learned by the students through watching lectures online on their own time. This allows more class time to be spent discussing rather than reviewing or introducing the material. It also grants students more independence and agency since they must learn on their own.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are resources with a range of permissions that typically grant a user a degree of freedom. These freedoms can range from the freedom to share the OER with anyone to freedom to edit and share, to freedom to even remix the content with other materials. The original content creator has the choice of whether or not to extend the range of options to the general public and anyone who uses OERs must credit the creator. This ensures that there is a wealth of knowledge and tools for virtually anyone to use so long as they respect the original creator and responsibly use the content.

Assignment 4: PowerPoint Information Dissemination

Assignment 5: PowerPoint Interaction

I learned a LOT from using PowerPoint for assignments 4 and 5. Before A4, my experience with PowerPoint was limited to creating basic slideshows with basic transitions and whatnot. I was really delighted at all of the skills I learned when constructing my PowerPoint on the importance of voting, such as the minutiae of the animations and transitions. For A5, I decided to create a "choose your own adventure" type of game focusing on three explorers of the New World. During this assignment, I used some of my knowledge I gained from A4 although I had to expand my range of skills. I enjoyed creating a nonlinear PowerPoint because I had never done that before and I can totally see myself using that skill in the future in my own classroom.