9 online or personal lecture?

I think the Flipped Classroom is a great resource for students and teachers.  This gives students an easy way to study at home before tests because they have their teachers’ lectures on the computer.  Also, teachers are able to get ideas based off of how other teachers teach certain lessons.  One of my high school classes actually had a flipped classroom.  It was nice during test time, but I didn’t like that we didn’t get that in-classroom lecture experience.  It was easier to remember information when I actually heard the teacher in class.  I believe that it is a good addition to a teacher’s lectures in class. 

http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/

This site would be useful in my professional development.  It helps teachers find books depending on the subject, author, etc.  This would help me find proper books for my future classroom, and I can use it in several locations.  This site can be used in the classroom, at home, or in the library. 

This site also provides teachers with student activities and quizzes.  This helps teachers access whether the book they chose was good for their students.  This will help me change the lesson plans in my classroom for future years.  This site is very convenient because so much can be accomplished on this site alone.  Teachers don’t need to assign students to complete activities on a bunch of different sites.  

Before this week’s assignment, I did not know how to hyperlink something to another slide.  This skill will be helpful in presentations if I don’t want to click through all the slides just to get to a slide later on in the presentation.  This will also help students stay more focused.  I also never knew I could look online to get PowerPoint templates.  I always just looked at the different designs that PowerPoint provides us with.  I believe that these other templates provide a more interesting format for students to look at.