Blog Post #9

       The "Flipped Classroom" is a form of  an instructional delivery system used to educate students in a not-so typical classroom set up. A flipped classroom allows the teacher to be helpful guide rather than the person teaching you new material. Instead of going to class and being taught a new subject, students actually go home and listen to recordings of video lectures assigned to them as homework. Then, the next school day the entire class comes together to actively discuss the lecture with their teacher acting  as a leader instead of a teacher. As leader of the class, the teacher is there to answer any questions or clarify any misunderstandings as well as make sure the discussion stays on track and thoughtful. Here is a link to some educational videos you can watch to learn more about the "Flipped Classroom."https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/flipped-classroom

       In the podcast "Open Content Open Source",The term "open" means exactly what you would think it means- accessible. For something to be "accessible" means for it to be easily opened for anyone and everyone. If something is open content it is copyrighted but in a manner that allows its license to be free and permissible to use.The podcast spoke of 4 different R words - reuse, revise, remix,and redistribute, but the podcast left out one other R word and that is retain. Retain has to do with the controlling of content, specifically how it is transferred, stored, and created. Now before one can implicate these "R" words, they have to make sure that the content has an open license. An open license is what qualifies various content to be considered open or of free use. But even if content has an open license, you still must be cautious of its requirements and restrictions. Learn more about "Open Source" content at the website: https://www.opencontent.org/definition/ 

       While working on both of the power point assignments, I acquired some handy new skills. One of the skills I am most impressed with is my ability to hyperlink slides to other slides throughout a power point slide show. Before this class, I had no idea that you could even link slides to each other let alone navigate the slide show by clicking linked buttons! I also learned how to cover up certain words through the use of animations. While in public school I had always wondered how teachers were able to reveal each answer at a single time, and now I finally understand just how they did it! Even though I really enjoyed working with buttons in power point, I was very frustrated that the buttons image within the icon could not be changed colors. I tinkered with the format and features for quite sometime before giving in and allowing my buttons to remain a single shade of color. Maybe there is some way to manipulate the color of the inner image, and if someone knows how please tell me cause I had no luck. Next time I create something in power point, I will dive straight into it with confidence instead of feeling like I did not understand what exactly I was doing - next time I will not hold back.