Blendspace
Blendspace is one of my new favorite lesson creation tools. Its purpose is to create lessons with an engaging and somewhat interactive interface. It utilizes a variety of different media types including Youtube, Google, and Dropbox. This is helpful because you can search all of these medias right on the interface and just drag and drop your content into the presentation.
Blendspace could fall somewhat into the category of social bookmarking. It is an excellent way to keep all of your content for a particular unit or subject in one place instead of spread out across multiple platforms. It enables you to create lessons that are easily reordered and added to. It allows you to search for content right in the interface instead of having to switch repeatedly from one site to another. The link can be shared with students for them to access from school or home. This is especially helpful in schools that do not allow students to take textbooks home. If they have access to the internet they can still use the Blendspace to learn.
You could also have students create presentations in Blendspace. Instead of creating a poster board or a PowerPoint presentation they could use Blendspace instead. It will allow them to gain access to technology and develop skills outside of the typical scope.
Blendspace has an extraordinarily easy interface. Creating my presentation took around 20 minutes, most of which was spent finding the resources I wanted to use. I was able to put activity instructions onto each slide in order to foster independent and group work. BlendSpace does not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it really does not need them in order to be a great presentation tool.
Here is an example Blendspace lesson I made over the different features
of South America for a 6th grade Wold Studies class.
South America
Blendspace could fall somewhat into the category of social bookmarking. It is an excellent way to keep all of your content for a particular unit or subject in one place instead of spread out across multiple platforms. It enables you to create lessons that are easily reordered and added to. It allows you to search for content right in the interface instead of having to switch repeatedly from one site to another. The link can be shared with students for them to access from school or home. This is especially helpful in schools that do not allow students to take textbooks home. If they have access to the internet they can still use the Blendspace to learn.
You could also have students create presentations in Blendspace. Instead of creating a poster board or a PowerPoint presentation they could use Blendspace instead. It will allow them to gain access to technology and develop skills outside of the typical scope.
Blendspace has an extraordinarily easy interface. Creating my presentation took around 20 minutes, most of which was spent finding the resources I wanted to use. I was able to put activity instructions onto each slide in order to foster independent and group work. BlendSpace does not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it really does not need them in order to be a great presentation tool.
Here is an example Blendspace lesson I made over the different features
of South America for a 6th grade Wold Studies class.
South America