Blog post 9

In a regular classroom, teachers give lessons and lecture, and then assign homework for students to do at home, where they can apply the things they learned. The flipped classroom refers to the teaching model in which the students have learned the lesson before they come to class, and they then do all of the activities in class. This ensures that students have the help they need when they are attempting to apply the knowledge, because the teacher is right there to better explain or help with understanding concepts. The Khan academy offers videos categorized both by subject and grade, covering k-12 and everything from basic fractions to WWI. 

"Open" refers to resources available to both teachers and students to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. These resources are open in that to copyright keep people from using them to educate themselves and those around them. While the podcast focuses on teachers' ability to find these sources and use them in class, it is important to know that those contributing the resources also benefit. This system allows for free revising from peers, and also allows them to expand their understanding of their own topics, as teachers might use them in new and interesting ways that the creator might not have thought of. 

I've been using PowerPoint from a fairly young age, I used to do them for fun just because I was excited to get to use the computer, so while I had fun with the assignment, I'm not sure I learned anything completely new. With the other PowerPoint project I learned how to do nonlinear navigation which was new to me, but this one felt more basic to me.