Blog Post 9

The flipped classroom is where children learn instructional materials at home and come into school to discuss the ideas and do activities. Essentially, the teacher gives the students a power point or lecture to listen to/read at home. This way, the student is able to grasp the material at their own pace. It is an effective tool because everyone learns differently and needs time to absorb information. When they need a teachers help after they have tried to understand the material, they just come to class as usual and do activities or discuss everything in the way they understand it. This would be a good tool for older children, but probably not for elementary schools.
http://flippedlearning.org/domain/36

https://www.pdresources.org/
This is a web based resourse that is all about professional development. They have been accredited by the APA, NBCC, ASWB, ASHA, AOTA, Florida, and the CDR. Here, a teacher can find many different courses for a rang of topics. These include, but are not limited to, courses on autism,temperament, bullying, and special education. They also have many different formats for courses, such as videos and test based ones.

This is an important tool for teachers to reach outside of their classrooms in order to learn and understand things that they might not have been trained on before. This website in particular allows teachers to buy the courses themselves so that they won't be limited only to what their school has to offer. Unfortunately, not all schools are able to set up resources for teachers to go to seminars or conferences so this would be a good alternative. While it does require a cost, the courses tend to be $50 or less and the teachers get to keep the materials to review later. It could also be good for a group of teachers to pitch in money for so that they could all share the content.

The PowerPoint for Information Dissemination gave me an opportunity to really get used to PowerPoint. Usually, when I've had to present things in the past, I've used Prezi more often than anything else. I liked that I was able to get creative and learn about the different animations and slide formats. I believe that will be a great tool for elementary schools because children like bold colors and pictures.