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Flipped, MERLOT, and I Can Use PowerPoint Now! (ish)

The Flipped Classroom is a classroom where students learn the information at home and do the homework in class. The teacher often creates videos for the students to watch at home and then works more one-on-one with the students during class. This classroom format can work well for history and English classes, which thrive with discussion and students asking about what they are confused on. It is significantly more difficult to do in classes that are not reading-based, like math and science. I think that in these classes, parts of the Flipped classroom should be used, but not all of them. 

Open educational resources are materials that anyone can view without having to pay for them. This is especially helpful for college students who need to buy many textbooks they might not use later on. The California State University System created 
MERLOT , which contains thousands of materials for students to use. There are tutorials, simulations, journals, reference materials, and more on the website; some of these materials are links to other websites, but it is still very helpful to be able to search for resources. 

I have learned to use PowerPoint much more effectively from these two assignments, such as recording lessons, designing presentations, using transitions and animations, and creating games. I liked how easy it was to record over a PowerPoint in Assignment 4, but I generally need to work on my presentation skills and making my lessons more succinct. In Assignment 5, I used a Jeopardy template, but I had to edit some of the buttons because they didn't work correctly. In the future, I think I will create my own template in Slide Master that I can use for all games, instead of trying to edit another's template a slide at a time. 


Assignment 4


Assignment 5

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