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For me, I want to teach kindergarten (no specific subject area) so I think that surveys would be really good for that age. I could do all kinds of different surveys in the classroom for example a survey about how many siblings each child has, what their favorite color is, etc. This is a good tool to record data at their age! There were a lot of super interesting topics in my classmates' blogs! I liked when we had to write about different tools we use in the classroom such as video sharing, blogs, and wikis. My favorite was  when we wrote about our different learning styles! It was really cool seeing each persons learning style and how they differ from everyone else! I would personally like to learn how to use Excel better! I know how to do basic things with it, but I think it's important that as a future educator that I master some of the tasks on Excel so that I can one day use it in the classroom. I will achieve this goal by asking people who know how to use Excel to help...

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The concept Flipped Classroom is a model in K-12 and postsecondary education. It was first created by teachers in a school in Colorado and was first made as an effort to flip the way students and teachers spend time in the classroom on a daily basis. Instead of just sitting in class listening to lecture after lecture, the students were given content and then homework based off of that same content. So in the flipped classroom setting, the lectures are prerecorded and sent out to each student electronically aside from the classroom. There are now a wide range of different technologies that teachers use in a flipped classroom setting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojiebVw8O0g Open education is all about making the same resources and experiences available to everyone, open content is making the same content available to everyone. For open content you want to focus on reusing, revising, remixing, and redistributing the content. Open source refers to software and it is where the acces...