Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Blog 9

The flipped classroom occurs when the roles of what happens in the classroom and outside the classroom are reversed. While at home the students will be assigned pre-recorded lectures to watch that would have traditionally been taught in the classroom. Then the students will arrive in class the next day already knowing the material and now they can focus on clarifying and deepening their understanding in class through the assistance of their teacher and peers.  During high school, my American Sign Language teacher in our second year would assign us videos of her signing our vocabulary words and the grammar lessons that we would watch at home. We were then able to come to class and clarify any signs we had trouble with and practice with our peers. During the first year though, she would have us learn the lesson in the classroom and the practice at home. The benefits of practicing with other students though helped us all better understand American Sign Language because now we had the ability to practice conversations and understanding what other people were signing as well.
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Everything that was a  part of the Power Point Information Dissemination assignment I already knew how to do. Though I had not used Power Point in a long time, it was nice to brush up on my skills. I enjoyed including speaker notes in my presentation. I have always known how to do them but never have because I prefer notecards. However, speaker notes keep me from having to keep track of notecards and reading from something in front of me. I did not like the nontraditional bullet list because when I create presentations I like things to be uniformed and the nontraditional list subtracted from that. To improve on my Power Point skills, I can continue to add speaker notes into my presentation as it will also help me become a better presenter. I can use Power Point in my class to present lectures, post assignments on the projector or created review games such as jeopardy.
  

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