Blog Post #9

    The flipped classroom concept is one that attempts to switch the usual roles of teacher and students inside and outside the classroom. With this concept the teacher will not lecture inside of class but instead pre-records lectures and assigns them for homework. This way once the students come into class they already know the material and they can practice with different problems inside the class instead of for homework. This type of classroom model has been gaining traction inside the K-12 schooling world after it was developed by two Woodland High School teacher and is becoming huge around the country with many of my younger brothers classes doing this now in Middle School. A good example of this type of learning would be the crash course series put together by John and Hank Green with my teachers actually showing us these videos and assigning homework with them included.
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
 
    The term open is in itself very open and broad so when I searched the term open I got a lot of results but eventually I narrowed that down to open software and Open-office. Open-office is a free, Microsoft office compatible tool that, like all other open content has its code open for change by the person using it. This means that for the more tech savoy they can change that they can change things in the code they may not like or even fix bugs that developers may not have caught. This not only breeds competition between the different software to see who truly has the best one but between the people to see who can create the best individual software.
https://www.openoffice.org/

    The two PowerPoint assignment were actually pretty fun for me to create. I had a blast because I already knew how to use the software and the material so I just had to put it together to make something awesome. In the end I actually did have to learn how to lay out a Jeopardy game and how to turn shapes into buttons that all lead someplace else. I do think I can improve my Jeopardy game next time, I think next time I'll add a wrong answer slide for every wrong answer so that every hyperlink doesn't go bad after one wrong answer but that would also just keep adding slides I really don't want to put into my already huge PowerPoint.