#9 The one before the final blog...

A "flipped classroom" is when the lecture and homework aspects are essentially switched. In the flipped classroom, lecture videos are assigned for the students to watch when they are at home and then the classroom time is spent on working on assignments and the teacher answering questions. This flipped classroom allows for in class time that the students can ask questions and more hands on activities that can help the students better understand what they are learning. Coming from a former student, most of the time I just completed my homework for the sake of completing it, not to further my understanding. But with this concept of the flipped classroom, students can spend their in class time gaining a better understanding and being able to ask questions and do more to actually learn and understand concepts. When in high school one source of education videos that I found very helpful was https://www.khanacademy.org/ , especially when it came to upper level science, khan academy allowed me to learn at my own pace and pause when I needed to wait for my brain to catch up.

After listening to the podcast, it was mentioned that blogs were a good web resource for teacher professional development so I simply googled teacher blogs. After googling this I saw so many blogs from different teachers all around the world. These blogs can help new teachers get ideas for their classrooms, experienced teachers learn something they never knew before and much more! One website that I found interesting was http://busyteacher.org/ This website is a compilation of thousands of worksheets, articles, and simply teachers sharing ideas with other teachers. This website is full of so much knowledge that you could not find without the internet. It is such a cool concept to me that teachers from all over have the ability to share all of this cool information.

I had never downloaded a powerpoint template from the internet before (heck I didn't even know it was an option) and I certainly never knew you could make games with powerpoint. After downloading a template which I thought was really cool, I played the game and couldn't help but imagining calling students up to the smart board to play this fun learning game. I did not know or even consider before this project that powerpoint had the capacity to be such a fun resource. Now knowing the capabilities of powerpoint, next time I would love to create my own game and be able to implement it into my future classroom.