Moving on, we will start by talking about open educational resources, or OER for short. Put simply, they are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that are published in the public domain. That's right, that means no copyrights, so you can keep them, reuse them, and remix them with no restrictions. That is wonderful news for us teachers! As the popularity of OER increase, we will have access to so many resources without restriction, allowing our lessons to become more complex and refined. I found this article about OER that talks about the potential to lower the cost and possibly even replace textbooks one day. Resources can range from textbooks to entire courses online that students could access for free. It's worth looking into if you're about that! It's linked HERE.
I have become even more efficient with Powerpoint after pumping out these assignments back-to-back. I have gotten the hang of some of the more advanced features of Powerpoint. I created a fairly basic presentation for a mock-AP Music Theory classroom on chromatic chords and that one was pretty tame. I am, however, a big fan of the non-linear powerpoint, because the possibilities are vast. I looked online and saw people who made entirely programmed mini games with Powerpoint alone! I would have liked to do an adventure RPG where the player chooses a path that offers multiple endings, but I didn't have the time so I created a Jeopardy game. I am happy I finally got to learn how teachers do those things! There's so much that can go into the design, it's truly fascinating. Because my topic was The Office, I designed mine around the aesthetics of the show's logo. Check out some screenshots of my works below. If you'd like to play The Office Trivia Game, leave a comment and I'll post it!
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