9: flipped classrooms and flipping out over powerpoint

The textbook defines the flipped classroom as an alternative way of learning that allows face-to-face learning time to be filled with activities and assignments, while at home time is used for lectures, through videos or podcasts. http://www.teachertube.com is a link to TeacherTube, which contains many vodcasts (video podcasts) as examples.

There is one professional development resources specific to teachers called the ASCD PD Online.  It provides online courses such as "Total Participation Techniques" and "Building Teacher's Capacity for Success: Instructional Coaching Essentials."  It's also a chance for teachers to earn academic or career credit.

I think that this resource is actually a very cool idea, especially since teachers spend so much time in their own classrooms, they need to stay updated on everything and keep learning themselves.  The information that they know will eventually become outdated, so they need to develop their skills even more.  People ranging from teachers to college professors to state, district and school administrators can use it to further their professional development.

I think I learned a lot of skills from this PowerPoint assignment.  I think I did a better job with using effective PowerPoint ideas, such as fewer bullet points, and varieties of graphics, fonts, font sizes and colors.  I really didn't like the Jing app - the idea is cool, but I hate how I sound on recordings, and even after trying a few times, I still didn't like any of them and just had to pick the best one.  The idea is fantastic but actually putting it into practice was a bit frustrating.  Here's a look at my slides.