What I Learned From:
Microsoft Certifications
For my Microsoft Certifications, I completed a course on incorporating flipped instruction into the classroom using resources like PowerPoint Recorder and a course on how to use a tool called Beedle to help organize assessments, assignments, and classes. I found both of these courses to be incredibly useful, and these courses provided information on how we can use these tools as teachers to change our classroom.
Flipped Instruction
Flipping classroom instruction has many benefits outside of simply showing a PowerPoint. PowerPoint allows you to record a lecture and include outside simulations and activities with resources like Geo-Gebra, PhET Simulations, and Online Python Tutor. Teachers can also link Microsoft Forms to the PowerPoint so that they can assess their students understanding. Microsoft Forms allows the teachers to get a record of their students responses in order to check both completion and understanding
Beedle
​I also looked into a resource called Beedle. Beedle provides you with an easy way to track and organize progress and grades on various assignments. You can create columns that use a point system while assigning point values numerically and by custom marking schemes. Using Beedle to track assessments creates a list of the average for each student as well as the total points for each student. Having the ability to create these different columns allows teachers to easily keep track of work students have completed and how students have been doing on assignments.
