Post 9- "Flipped Classroom"

"The Flipped Classroom" according to our book is, "an innovative blended delivery model" (Lever-Duffy 238). It basically flips the traditional way classrooms teach by having the student's watch a recording of their teachers lecture as homework so that when they go into class the next day they are ready to gain a deeper understanding with the teacher and their peers there to help. I think it is an interesting approach to saving classroom time so that children are able to ask more questions and be more involved in gaining a deeper understanding of the basic topic they learned the night before. One problem I can see with it however is that not all children have access to technology after school and I worry about how hard of a time kids would have if they don't watch the lecture the night before. If it was a guarantee that kids would/could watch the lecture the night before and actually listen to it, I think it would be a very effective way of spending classroom time gaining a better understanding of materials. I found a fun educational video to teach student's fractions. I like that it used things that capture student's attention, like food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0FZhQ_GkKw

One interesting web-based resource for professional development I found is called "Schoology". This is a learning management system that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. It can also keep track of interactions among students and student assessment results. Some of the features that are included is calendar management, workload planning, personal messaging, and both large-scare (system-wide) and small-scale (user) management.
https://www.schoology.com

From working on the PowerPoint Interaction assignment, I've learned how to now create a interactive PowerPoint for classroom games. This will be very effective in my future career as a teacher since many children like to learn from games and also provides a fun way to learn rather than lecturing the whole time. I liked the game I chose and the sounds because I think that it is a fun and easy game for kids to play. One thing I didn't like was one video I downloaded with the game wouldn't show up on my PowerPoint.